As we remember and honor the sacrifice of American GIs who died at Normandy in the battle against fascism, it’s vital to realize that the struggle against that evil form of government is once again before us.

From November 2020 until last week we lived in the era of Trump Big Lie 1.0, his assertion that he’d won an election he actually lost by over 7 million votes. It was a bold, audacious move, something no American politician had ever had the fundamental lack of integrity, decency, or shame to try.

While some of the most spineless, craven, and sold-out Republicans were quick to take his side with Big Lie 1.0 (139 of them in the House of Representatives and eight in the Senate)—even in the face of his throwing a deadly mob against the U.S. Capitol that tried to hang his vice president and murder the speaker of the house—there were still some who held to principle and didn’t vote to overthrow the election.

Trump has his own two big lies: that the election was stolen and he’s the victim of political prosecution.

Those Republicans are now mostly all gone, purged from the party or cowed into silence by fear of violence against their families or the end of their political careers.

And now, as of last week, we live in the era of Trump Big Lie 2.0: that Trump is the victim of a political prosecution.

It’s completely changed the political landscape. Trump and his spokesmen are now openly calling for the imprisonment and even the death of members of law enforcement, the FBI, and the judiciary. We’ve moved from the Beer Hall Putsch to the Night of the Long Knives.

Ironically, many of the Republicans who now compete to most fulsomely kiss Trump’s ass in public were the very same ones who, in 2015, first warned us against him. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, and Lindsey Graham, for example, all once referenced his long history of criminal and immoral behavior, unbefitting a politician of any party.

This was, after all, the man who before he ran for the GOP nomination in 2015:

Nonetheless, when Trump won the Republican primary most of his opponents fell in line. Those who didn’t go along were systematically purged from the party.

In the years between then and now, Trump has been:

Now that our criminal justice system has tried to hold him accountable for a small fraction of the........

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