{"id":9928,"date":"2023-02-05T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2023-02-05T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:57:06","slug":"2-years-after-the-capitol-riot-the-gop-remains-divided-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9928","title":{"rendered":"2 Years After the Capitol Riot, the GOP Remains Divided. Good."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;For a brief moment following the January 6 Capitol riot, it looked like most Republican lawmakers and pundits would condemn Trump&#8217;s lies and the riot they spawned. But a funny thing happened on the way to what should have been a reckoning: A whole lot of conservatives decided to back Trump&#8217;s narrative about a stolen election. Meanwhile, those who vocally opposed it found themselves on the wrong side of the ongoing inter-GOP war, one in which more moderate or conventional conservatives were demonized by Trump and his populist lackeys and Republican rising stars fought to position themselves as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2017\/03\/15\/thomas-massies-unified-theory-of-ron-pau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the craziest son of a bitch in the race<\/a>&#8221; (to quote Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on what he realized voters swinging from libertarian-leaning candidates to Trump were looking for).<br>Flash forward two years, and whack job populism has suffered a smidge of comeuppance. The 2022 midterm elections weren&#8217;t kind to Trump-backed candidates and election deniers, and\u2014Trump&#8217;s 2024 candidacy notwithstanding\u2014it looks like the fever dream that culminated in the events of January 6, 2021, has started to break.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/01\/06\/2-years-after-the-capitol-riot-the-gop-remains-divided-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/01\/06\/2-years-after-the-capitol-riot-the-gop-remains-divided-good\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For a brief moment following the January 6 Capitol riot, it looked like most Republican lawmakers and pundits would condemn Trump&#8217;s lies and the riot they spawned. But a funny thing happened on the way to what should have been a reckoning: A whole lot of conservatives decided to back Trump&#8217;s narrative about a stolen election. Meanwhile, those who vocally opposed it found themselves on the wrong side of the ongoing inter-GOP war, one in which more moderate or conventional conservatives were demonized by Trump and his populist lackeys and Republican rising stars fought to position themselves as &#8220;the craziest son of a bitch in the race&#8221; (to quote Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on what he realized voters swinging from libertarian-leaning candidates to Trump were looking for).<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward two years, and whack job populism has suffered a smidge of comeuppance. The 2022 midterm elections weren&#8217;t kind to Trump-backed candidates and election deniers, and\u2014Trump&#8217;s 2024 candidacy notwithstanding\u2014it looks like the fever dream that culminated in the events of January 6, 2021, has started to break.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,1135,509,968,506,1134],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-insurrection","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","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=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}