Ginni Thomas is not some lonely, fringe figure. And she isn’t some random “rube” listening to crank podcasters and trawling 8chan from a little home in the “heartland.” She resides in the power center of the free world, firmly entrenched in the mainstream conservative movement.
This is to say, it’s now obvious that the lies around the Big Lie are fully accepted as fact among conservative D.C. elites. These aren’t Marjorie Taylor Greene congressional backbenchers, these are major players who are calling the shots and supping from the witches’ brew of bullshit (QAnon, Alex Jones’ InfoWars, Pizzagate) that polluted the brains of the Jan. 6 rioters.
Whatever consequences the Thomases might face (likely none), conservatives ought to use this as an opportunity to stop waving away the Big Lie as oh-so-much MSNBC panic-mongering.
Trump’s refusal to accept that he lost—enabled by conservative elites like Ginni Thomas—is a festering wound on American democracy. Be outraged about it, or don’t act outraged about anything.
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