This is an opinion column.
This is not the time for Mo Brooks to leave. He should never have been there in the first place.
Alabama’s toughest congressman should not have led the senseless challenge to the Electoral College’s vote.
He should not have embarrassed Alabama for years with stupid statements, such as when he chased on talk radio about a ‘war against whites’, or when he tweeted a photo of horse dung, or when he said that the sea level rises due to the fall of rocks. in the water.
He should not have been at that rally on Wednesday morning, sparking an uprising that shamed America before the world.
He should not have been in the living room, where he raged about immigrants, his favorite scapegoat, when he made an uninterrupted, nonsensical argument to stab American democracy.
Brooks should never have been a congressman.
All the signs were there that Brooks was a dangerous crackpot. But this week was different. This time he endangered our country. He helped embarrass America in front of the whole world.
Rep. Mo Brooks brought Alabama shame. He is a liability to his district and a danger to our country.
Mo Brooks has to go. It’s long over. He must resign. And if he does not, Congress must remove him from office. He must hide his face forever. He has to crawl into the bunker he prepared for which racial war his fevered brain presented to him. And never get out. With whatever devil he negotiated, it could take him back to hell.
According to all the major newspapers, Donald Trump has incited the riots in the capital of our country, and they are mostly right. But there’s the guilt of going around, and a lot of it belongs to Brooks.
It was Brooks who used the case to overthrow a legitimate election.
It was Brooks who stood in front of that ominous crowd and said it.
“Today is the day American patriots start taking names and kicking a hole,” he cheered from the crowd.
And it was Brooks who, five hours after he threw that rock, tried to hide his hand, and the blame for the siege of our country’s capital on leftists who apparently exist only in his imagination.
“Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backward MAGA hats. Time will tell what the truth is, ”he tweeted.
When the barbarians he aroused invaded the capital, Brooks cracked jokes while House and Senate staff hid in fear for their lives.
‘At least # Socialist #Democrats did NOT remove the police from the Capitol, “he tweeted during the siege. “Evacuate room.”
It was no laughing matter, but this guy is a clown. And this man is a coward. Some of the wages that hit the capital today at least got credit for what they did.
Like so many Republicans who followed Trump across this cliff, Brooks tried to hide behind a law-and-order rogue.
“As a strong supporter of the rule of law, I hope EVERYONE who illegally violates the Capitol is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Brooks tweeted when it was the right thing to say.
If he really believes this, he must surrender himself. He will not.
By Thursday morning, Brooks was back in full gas exposure mode and sharing cockamami conspiracy theories on Twitter, accusing the media of rushing to the verdict and trying to convince the world that what everyone saw on live TV was not true.
“Everything may not occur (and probably may not),” did he tweet. “Evidence that the fascist ANTIFA Capitol attack orchestrated with clever clever control tactics.”
If anyone knows about manipulating a mob, it’s Brooks. Not only did he incite the rebels outside, but he also led all of Alabama’s Republicans except Richard Shelby to vote against democracy.
They should have known better.
Brooks cares more about the truth than looking at the consequences. He did not shout fire in a packed theater. He set the theater on fire and then blamed the fire department when the arson inspectors arrived.
This uprising did not begin on the steps of the capital, or even on the Washington Mall.
It starts inside, where Brooks has been all along.
Where he should never have been.
Kyle Whitmire is the state political columnist for the Alabama Media Group.
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