January 6 rioters are running for Republican office as GOP pivots toward lawlessness

…Yet Americans are witnessing, in real time, the transformation of the GOP into an authoritarian party. A big driver of that transformation has been the consolidation of Donald Trump's election fraud "big lie" into Republican Party dogma — a process of collective corruption similar to the one Orwell describes…https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/january-6-rioters-are-running-republican-office-gop-pivots-toward-n1287782