Most elected Republican politicians hesitated at first, but have since become silent.
Most Republican politicians, and money-grubbing propagandists like Tucker Carlson, knew it was a lie but just didn’t — and still don’t — care.
By insisting on this lie, by apologizing for it, by making light of it, by excusing Trump’s many machinations to keep himself in power illegally, by keeping their followers ignorant and unable to “connect the dots,” they contemptuously reject the very foundations of rule by law, and all the great traditions that have kept our country a flawed but real Republic and representative democracy for over two centuries.