How To Engage In Legitimate Political Discourse

Yesterday, the Republican National Committee voted to censure Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, which is not all that special by itself. Liz Cheney has already lost any power she has within the Republican Party and Adam Kinzinger isn’t even planning on running for re-election later this year. Neither of these two actually care about what the mainstream Republican Party think of them, and this will not change no matter how much they are attacked.

However, what was notable about the censure was the language in it, specifically, the down right Orwellian rewriting of what the Storming of the Capitol actually was. Specifically, the resolution states:

Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.

This is a reference to both Cheney and Kinzinger sitting on the House Committee to investigate the Storming of the Capitol. Of course, the committee is only “Democrat-led,” because House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy refused to actually appoint people to the committee that didn’t support overturning the 2020 Presidential Election. Of the five people Kevin McCarthy tried to put on the committee — Jim Banks, Jim Jordan, Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong, and Troy Nehls — three of them had voted to overturn the Electoral College…