{"id":4170,"date":"2021-01-08T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2021-01-08T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:17:07","slug":"ted-cruz-and-his-pals-are-responsible-for-wednesdays-carnage-and-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz and His Pals Are Responsible for Wednesday\u2019s Carnage and Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;What happens when political parties reject elections and delegitimize democracy? American history tells us clearly: violence and bloodshed. Wednesday\u2019s riot at the Capitol may seem unprecedented, but it was utterly predictable. On Sunday, I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jedshug\/status\/1345767659602911233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;this thread on how attempts to steal American elections almost inevitably lead to violence, and I drafted much of this essay on Monday. While Wednesday\u2019s violence was foreseeable, the question now is what Congress should do about the national leaders who enabled and inflamed this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after Wednesday\u2019s literal assault on democracy, a significant number of Republicans continue to spread\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/01\/republican-leaders-issue-meek-statements-capitol-siege.html\" target=\"_blank\">baseless conspiracy theories<\/a>. Indeed, these members cited the spread of those theories in order to justify their decision to object to Wednesday\u2019s Electoral College count, the precipitating event for all of this madness. As a pro-Trump mob was marching to the Capitol right on cue, Sen. Ted Cruz led the objections, swooning that \u201c39 percent of Americans say the election was rigged. \u2026 You might disagree, but it is a profound danger to our democracy.\u201d Yes, Ted Cruz spreading these baseless concerns, and then citing those concerns, is indeed a profound danger to our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/01\/ted-cruz-josh-hawley-capitol-riot-blame.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/01\/ted-cruz-josh-hawley-capitol-riot-blame.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What happens when political parties reject elections and delegitimize democracy? American history tells us clearly: violence and bloodshed. Wednesday\u2019s riot at the Capitol may seem unprecedented, but it was utterly predictable. On Sunday, I tweeted this thread on how attempts to steal American elections almost inevitably lead to violence, and I drafted much of this essay on Monday. While Wednesday\u2019s violence was foreseeable, the question now is what Congress should do about the national leaders who enabled and inflamed this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Even after Wednesday\u2019s literal assault on democracy, a significant number of Republicans continue to spread baseless conspiracy theories. Indeed, these members cited the spread of those theories in order to justify their decision to object to Wednesday\u2019s Electoral College count, the precipitating event for all of this madness. As a pro-Trump mob was marching to the Capitol right on cue, Sen. Ted Cruz led the objections, swooning that \u201c39 percent of Americans say the election was rigged. \u2026 You might disagree, but it is a profound danger to our democracy.\u201d Yes, Ted Cruz spreading these baseless concerns, and then citing those concerns, is indeed a profound danger to our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1138,431,221,372,1133,1106],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-capitol-building","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-mob","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}