Crash Course: More than Trump ego maintenance: GOP move to "expunge" impeachments is part of their war on history

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More than Trump ego maintenance: GOP move to "expunge" impeachments is part of their war on history As part of their apparent mission to be the dumbest congressional majority in history, last week House Republicans [introduced bills to "expunge" Donald Trump's two](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmfpe9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdmhtY3Vkamp4aC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXFwNXIwcTEzMjlXA3NwY0IKZJG_Epxk0R2FilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) impeachments. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., brought forward two resolutions claiming that, as if by magic, they can make it "as if such articles had never been passed." [Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmfpe9P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMDhkb2huNGp3dy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXFwNXIwcTEzMjkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZJG_Epxk0R2FilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), is fully on board with these efforts, even though, as[ Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post wrote](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmfpe9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMmpkb2p1YnZkNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXFwNXIwcTEzMjlXA3NwY0IKZJG_Epxk0R2FilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), "expunging a presidential impeachment is not a thing." "Gaslighting" is an overused term, but this is an iconic example of it: Telling people that what they witnessed with their eyes never happened. 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