Republicans Have More To Fear From Their Base Than Democrats Do

Stephen Butler
3 min readJan 15, 2021
‘Patriots’ attack the US Capitol, January 6, 2021.

“What were you thinking?”

That’s the question the US conservative talk show host Erick Erickson addressed to his Republican friends earlier this week.

Specifically he was wondering how they ever thought they could get away with lying to their followers about the outcome of the 2020 election, and what they thought…

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