Disagree. Biden keeps saying he wants "unity and healing" and a "strong Republican Party", which only strengthens Trump.
Trump and his co-conspirators should be removed from office, arrested, criminally prosecuted and put in prison.
There should be an open investigation into Trump’s conspiracy and the January 6 coup attempt, with televised and live-streamed hearings, in which names are named and the political motives and financial backers of the conspirators exposed.
As Biden pleads for unity, Senate Republicans overwhelmingly back Trump in impeachment trial
On Monday evening, Democratic House managers officially presented an article of impeachment to the Senate, formally initiating the trial of Donald Trump on charges of inciting the fascist mob that overran the US Capitol on January 6.
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The next day, Senate Republicans made clear their contempt for constitutional norms and democratic rights by voting overwhelmingly to back Trump in a procedural motion put forward by far-right Kentucky Republican Rand Paul.
Among those voting for Paul’s motion seeking to scuttle the impeachment trial as unconstitutional was Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the object of lavish praise in recent days from President Joe Biden for his supposed fidelity to constitutional principles. In reality, McConnell, then the Senate Majority leader, played a central role in Trump’s conspiracy to overturn the results of the presidential election, refusing for weeks after Biden’s substantial victory in both the popular and Electoral College vote to oppose Trump’s bogus claims of a stolen election.
Joining McConnell were 44 other Republican senators, leaving only five Republicans voting in favor of holding the trial.
Biden’s ceaseless appeals for “unity” and “healing,” which began two days after the January 6 coup attempt when he argued for maintaining a “strong Republican Party,” have emboldened the fascistic forces promoted by the Republican Party and Trump, who, though out of office, remains the dominant figure in the GOP.
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Republican leaders and officials at the federal and state levels know they have nothing to fear from the new administration. They and their co-conspirators in the military, the police, the intelligence agencies and the corporate-financial oligarchy, who were part of the plot organized from the White House, know they will not be held accountable and can continue their efforts to develop a fascist movement directed against the working class.
Those voting for Paul’s resolution include Republicans who led the effort to block congressional certification of Biden’s win, including senators Josh Hawley (Missouri), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama).
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House Republicans who backed the White House plot include Ohio’s Jim Jordan, prominent “#StopTheSteal” organizers Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar from Arizona, and Alabama Representative Mo Brooks, as well as open proponents of the fascist QAnon conspiracy theory, Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert and Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that Greene had posted multiple comments on her personal Facebook page in 2018 and 2019 supporting the execution of Democratic politicians. In one January 2019 post, Greene “liked” a comment that called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get “a bullet to the head.”
Biden and the Democrats are engaged in a massive coverup of the fascist attack on the Capitol, an event without any precedent in US history, and the months-long attempt to subvert the election results in order to install Trump as dictator.
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The Democrats’ coverup and Republican defiance coincides with new revelations that underscore the vast scale of the conspiracy and the involvement of critical agencies of the state and high-ranking officials. It was not just a right-wing mob that got out of control but a coordinated operation directed from the White House.
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The Trump campaign paid more than $2.7 million to entities responsible for organizing the January 6 rally on the Ellipse, where Trump urged his followers to walk to the Capitol and “fight like hell.”
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AWashington Postreport published Tuesday pointed to high-level coordination between the Pentagon and Trump in carrying out the attempted coup. In a stunning interview, D.C. National Guard Commander General William J. Walker revealed that the Pentagon on January 5 stripped him of his authority to dispatch troops to secure the Capitol.
“All military commanders normally have immediate response authority to protect property, life, and, in my case, federal functions—federal property and life. But in this instance, I did not have that authority,” Walker told thePost. Instead, Walker had to wait for approval from Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, as well as recently appointed acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
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Miller, a far-right former Special Operations commander, who participated in the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, was installed by Trump as part of a wide-ranging purge of civilian leaders in the Pentagon following Trump’s defeat in the November 3 election.
When Biden calls for “unity” in order to “build back better,” he is actually calling for unity within the ruling class and the capitalist state in order to take on the working class.
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A policy of unity with the Republicans stands diametrically opposed to any serious investigation of the coup.
Both parties are aware that any genuine public accounting and exposure of the facts—including texts, emails and communications between the police, Wall Street, the Pentagon and the White House—would undermine the Republican Party and radicalize large sections of the working class and youth, fueling social and political opposition. This is what the Democrats fear, far more than the threat of fascism or dictatorship.
Trump and his co-conspirators must be removed from office, arrested, criminally prosecuted and put in prison.
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This can come about only through the mass, independent intervention of the working class, fighting to defend democratic rights on the basis of a socialist program.
This fight must be linked to the demand for a full and open investigation into Trump’s conspiracy and the January 6 coup attempt, with televised and live-streamed hearings, in which names are named and the political motives and financial backers of the conspirators exposed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/27/impe-j27.html
