Democrats applaud with Republicans after certifying Trump's re-election victory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Before and after the certification, leading members of the Democratic Party, including current President Joe Biden, made clear they would do everything in their power to ensure a "smooth transition" for Trump.
40% : facebook iconOn January 6, 2025, four years after Donald Trump ordered a mob of his supporters to march on the Capitol to block the election of Joe Biden, the US Congress certified Trump's 2024 victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
40% : Monday's certification was the final constitutional procedural hurdle before Trump is sworn in as the 47th president on January 20, 2025.
36% : Pardoning the criminals who assaulted police officers and tried to halt the democratic process would be a dangerous endorsement of political violence.
34% : While Trump and the Republicans have indeed attempted to portray the events of January 6 as merely a "peaceful protest" that "got out of hand," the fact remains that Trump's return to the White House is only possible because of the Democratic Party's refusal to pursue criminal investigations into not only Trump but also his accomplices in the Republican Party, the police-military-intelligence apparatus and the Supreme Court itself.
31% : Trump has continued to claim that the 2020 election was stolen, praised the hundreds of right-wing militia members who stormed the Capitol on his behalf and promised to pardon hundreds -- if not over 1,000 -- of the low-level foot soldiers he claims have been mistreated by a justice system biased against Republicans.
26% : In reality, a majority of House Republicans voted against certifying the election after the attack and refused to impeach Trump less than a month later in a truncated trial.
22% : In the entire column, Biden never once mentions Trump by name, despite his leading role in promoting the "big lie" that the 2020 election was "rigged" and that "patriots" needed to come to Washington D.C. to "stop the steal.
21% : Referring to Trump, Biden said, "I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy.
21% : Even as Democrats roll out the red carpet for Trump, the president-elect fumed on his social media site Monday that Biden was "doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money-wasting Hoaxes.
19% : Leading Democrats presented their willingness to rewrite history and acquiesce to Trump as evidence that the fascist threat had passed.
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15% : Seeking to chloroform the public to the looming threat of dictatorship, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to name Trump or to acknowledge his role in the attack during a 10-minute speech before the joint session.
10% : The only time Schumer referenced Trump directly was when he briefly criticized "the President" for "considering pardons for these rioters who broke the law [and] attacked our police officers on January 6th.
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