Clyburn warns against forgetting Jan. 6 as Trump taunts former SC congressman Tom Rice
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The coverage leans hard on a familiar assumption: that remembering Jan. 6 means accepting Democrats’ story about it and treating every dissenting view on 2020 as a civic threat. Clyburn’s warning and Trump’s taunts make for clean morality play, but it skips the harder question of why so many Americans no longer trust national elections.
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Five years after the Jan. 6 attack, Rep. Jim Clyburn warned the threat to American democracy persists. President Trump repeated false election claims and revisited his feud with former Rep. Tom Rice.
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The coverage leans hard on a familiar assumption: that remembering Jan. 6 means accepting Democrats’ story about it and treating every dissenting view on 2020 as a civic threat. Clyburn’s warning and Trump’s taunts make for clean morality play, but it skips the harder question of why so many Americans no longer trust national elections.
Conservatives can condemn violence and still insist that public trust is not rebuilt through sermons or censorship. The press rarely lingers on the failures that eroded confidence: uneven voting rules, shaky transparency, and a political class that sounds allergic to oversight.
A durable democracy rests on rule of law, fair and uniform election standards, and accountability that applies to everyone, not just one side’s villains. If the goal is stability, start by fixing institutions, not by policing memory.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.