{"id":465495,"date":"2022-06-20T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/republicans-need-a-leader-without-trumps-2020-obsession\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:23:46","slug":"republicans-need-a-leader-without-trumps-2020-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/republicans-need-a-leader-without-trumps-2020-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"#Republicans need a leader without Trump&#8217;s 2020 obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29797b04c81\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29797b04c81\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/republicans-need-a-leader-without-trumps-2020-obsession\/#%E2%80%9CRepublicans_need_a_leader_without_Trumps_2020_obsession%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Republicans need a leader without Trump&#8217;s 2020 obsession&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRepublicans_need_a_leader_without_Trumps_2020_obsession%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Republicans need a leader without Trump&#8217;s 2020 obsession&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s understandable that Democrats would want to constantly revisit\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0\u2014 to invoke it, investigate it and sacralize it even.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mystery, at least from a certain level of abstraction, why Republicans would want to have anything to do with that day or want to fixate on the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The party is on the cusp of a midterm triumph, has enormous openings on the economy and education thanks to Biden administration stumbles and left-wing overreach, is making inroads among Hispanic voters and has a well-stocked political bench that Democrats should envy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet\u00a0the GOP\u00a0is stuck litigating the past almost entirely because its putative leader in Mar-a-Lago is incapable of admitting error or defeat and will never stop trying to excuse and explain away his infamous conduct after November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>You can argue that\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0wasn\u2019t an insurrection; that the composition of the committee is unfair and\u00a0lacks the adversarial element that has always been presumed to be central to the workings of such bodies; that the revelations or supposed revelations from the committee are being overhyped; and that Trump, whatever his failings, didn\u2019t commit crimes and shouldn\u2019t be charged with one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP22169832623123.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd gathered at the Landers Center in Southaven, Miss., on Saturday, June 18, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22725150\"\/><figcaption>Donald Trump recently called the riot \u201cthe greatest movement in the history of the country to Make America Great Again.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Joe Rondone\/The Commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>eal via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, I agree with every one of those propositions. But none of them makes\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0any better or makes it\u00a0<em>good<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite true, as is often said, that every election is about the future. Republicans waved the bloody shirt of the Civil War for years. Democrats ran against Herbert Hoover for as long as they could. Republicans still talk about Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>In all these instances, though, a party made a focal point of a low and embarrassing moment for the other side, not its own.<\/p>\n<p>Revisionist historians and writers might pop up to defend the legacy of a Hoover or Carter or argue that they\u2019d been misrepresented or unfairly maligned. Still, the parties moved on and focused on making new memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is what Trump doesn\u2019t want to allow Republicans to do. With his knack for blunt-force marketing (Fake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>, Russia Hoax), he believes he can deflect any attack and redefine the terms of debate to his liking. And he\u2019s not wrong. He\u2019s brought much of his party along with him in his insistence that 2020 was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>His attitude toward\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0hasn\u2019t gotten more defensive with time but more fulsome. In a recent statement, he called it \u201cthe greatest movement in the history of the country to Make America Great Again.\u201d His 12-page memo in response to the initial hearings doubled down on his fantastical case against the election, as\u00a0if to\u00a0confirm every harsh thing former Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Bill Barr said about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP21019691330081.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington\" class=\"wp-image-22725178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP21019691330081.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP21019691330081.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP21019691330081.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/AP21019691330081.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Trump supporters climb the west wall of the the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Jose Luis Magana<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump is acting on an entirely personal and selfish priority. There\u2019s no principle at stake in embracing the\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0mob or advancing 2020 conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible to defend free speech and assembly, obviously, without defending a breach of the US Capitol. It\u2019s possible to support tightening up the security around voting without believing massive fraud changed the result in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump is the Republican candidate again in 2024, even in the unlikely event that he wanted to memory hole\u00a0Jan. 6, it wouldn\u2019t happen. The Democrats would bring it up unrelentingly. Perhaps it wouldn\u2019t work, but why would Republicans want to risk it or even deal with the complication?<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is a vulnerability unique to Trump. No other prospective 2024 candidate would have to excuse\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0and parrot the most outlandish claims about the 2020 election, not Ron DeSantis, not Mike Pence, not Tom Cotton, not Nikki Haley. If none of these candidates would sound like Liz Cheney, none would be inextricably linked to bonkers events four years prior, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d be free of the 2020 albatross and of any obligation to defend the indefensible, leaving the obsession with\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0to congressional Democrats \u2014 and Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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