Mara Gay: Republicans Welcoming Trump Back to Capitol ‘Akin to What You Would See Out of State Media from North Korea’

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GRAY: "Yeah, you know, looking at this room that — I don’t want to be hyperbolic, but it has a feel something more akin to what you would see out of state media from North Korea than it does from the United States. Just the obsequious flattery, it's really sickening. But pulling back a moment, it really is disturbing because it should take us back to 2016, when there were many reasonable, smart Americans who said to themselves, 'Well, I don’t really like either candidate, but how bad can Trump be?' I think there was a lack of — just a failure of imagination about how bad things could get, about how much of a threat this man and his movement really was to democracy. I think this is a moment to re-examine these stakes, which are even higher because, of course, this is a candidate who has said, if he was elected again, that he would have an entire term based on retribution. It’s very clear that these Republicans, the American political party that has allowed themselves to be corrupted by him, there are very few people left in the room, if anyone, who will stop him from desecrating this democracy, from using the country’s institutions to dismantle that democracy.”