Jonathan Chait: “A really unusual disjuncture has opened up in Washington between the serene temper and the alarming developments which are below manner. The floor is calm as a result of the Republican presidential candidate received the election, and Democrats, the one one of many two main events dedicated on precept to upholding the legitimacy of election outcomes, conceded defeat and are cooperating within the peaceable transition of energy. No matter vitality the chastened Democrats can muster in the mean time is aimed inward, at factional struggles over their future route.”
“In the meantime, what is definitely taking place within the capital is, by any rational commonplace, disturbing. Donald Trump is filling his administration with ‘loyalists,’ a prerogative his opponents have grudgingly accepted as his due. But he’s defining loyalist in maximal phrases, together with the idea that Trump legitimately received the 2020 election and was justified in his try to seize energy. The winners are rewriting the historical past of the rebellion, and their model of historical past is about to amass the power of legislation.”
