R&I NV — Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 12:53 AM ET, Thu October 7, 2021
Donald Trump is ’99, 100 percent’ likely to run for president in 2024
(CNN)The lesson is always the same, but Republicans who want a future must ignore it.
GOP heavyweights who appease ex-President Donald Trump and whitewash his election lies to advance their own political careers only encourage even more damaging attacks on democracy and his building authoritarianism. It was true in the 2016 campaign, when the GOP abetted Trump’s demagoguery on the assumption he would behave in office. It was the same story when he escaped conviction by Republican senators in two impeachments. And it is true now, when Trump’s attempts to destroy faith in an election system that ejected him from office are getting worse.
The 45th President, who is making unmistakable moves to fire up a 2024 campaign, on Wednesday issued his latest assault on the truth of his 2020 defeat and the attempted coup he inspired when he attacked the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
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Carl Sagan
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