More from Unthinkable

 More from Jamie Raskin's Book: Unthinkable

Lost Cause Myth "...falsely claimed that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery but was a simple constitutional disagreement between the states and the federal government over the proper allocation of powers."

j6 DJT tweet: "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfaired treated for so long."

"There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.This was a fraudulent election. But we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace.So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel."

"It is no coincidence that a Confederate battle flag was waved inside the Capitol on January 6..." ("new-and-improved Lost Cause myth")

"...it's time to heal, let's all just move on and let bygones, be bygones." (Trump GOP loyalists)

The managers understood that "Can't we all just move on?" was the go-to mantra of abusers and bullies who got caught."

"...we pounced immediately to argue that we could not successfully heal without first confronting the reality of what had happened. 

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Reminds me of my ex husband, "you're living in the past." No, I was living in the exact moment. If I brought up an incident from our past, it was to show why he should not make the same mistake again. DJT reminded me so much of my ex. And a brother-in-law who constantly told tall tales (lies, imagined heroics.) 

No way to get over his physical violence when he denied the reality and never apologized. That violence might be due to my trying to talk him out of making another mistake; if I would not simply agree to do what he wanted, he used his fists.