John Eastman & Election: The Eastman Memo Is a Tragedy of Errors

The Republican Party and the conservative movement would both be best served by moving on from Donald Trump, the 2020 election controversies, and the January 6 Capitol riot. Unfortunately, Trump is not eager to go away, a faction of his hard-core supporters still care deeply about defending stolen-election theories, and some of them are agitated about the January 6 prosecutions.

Moreover, Democrats and their allies in the media and the pundit class are — for fairly obvious reasons — far more interested in talking about Trump, the 2020 election, and January 6 than in talking about the current government of the United States. So, the subject is not going away, and those of us who revisit it periodically have a duty to posterity to get the facts right.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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The Republican Party and the conservative movement would both be best served by moving on from Donald Trump, the 2020 election controversies, and the January 6 Capitol riot. Unfortunately, Trump is not eager to go away, a faction of his hard-core supporters still care deeply about defending stolen-election theories, and some of them are agitated about the January 6 prosecutions.

Moreover, Democrats and their allies in the media and the pundit class are — for fairly obvious reasons — far more interested in talking about Trump, the 2020 election, and January 6 than in talking about the current government of the United States. So, the subject is not going away, and those of us who revisit it periodically have a duty to posterity to get the facts right.