I don’t know what you do about this
By 
For five years the mainstream media have actually been pretty good about characterizing Trump’s claims about the 2020 election as “false” and even “lies,” which is a word they really really hate to use, so you know it’s bad.
From the White House website just now:
This simply totalitarian-style (Nazi, Stalinist) re-writing of history into a flagrantly fictional narrative for propaganda purposes.
Earlier today, Doug LaMalfa died. LaMalfa was a GOP congressman who 100% supported all of this — he claimed soon after January 6 that “the circumstances surrounding this presidential election point to a fraudulent outcome,” and he signed a brief supporting a lawsuit intended to get the SCOTUS to overturn the election.
In other words, this guy was an insurrectionist, straight up. Lets see how serious the Democratic “leadership” is about insurrection:
“I join people across Northern California in mourning the untimely passing of Congressman Doug LaMalfa. A fourth-generation rice farmer, Rep. LaMalfa treasured his community, worked powerfully to protect California’s farmers and served those he represented with principled purpose, from the state legislature to the United States House of Representatives,” Jeffries, D-N.Y., stated. “Doug and I joined the Congress as classmates in 2013, and it was an honor to witness firsthand his passion and personal resolve for more than a decade.”
OK Jefferies is absolutely hopeless on this subject, that’s a given, but what about the latest Great White Hope, Gov. Good Hair?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said flags at the California State Capitol will be flown at half-staff in honor of LaMalfa.
“Congressman Doug LaMalfa was a devoted public servant who deeply loved his country, his state, and the communities he represented. While we often approached issues from different perspectives, he fought every day for the people of California with conviction and care. He will be deeply missed,” Newsom said in a statement.
And to people who say this stuff doesn’t matter, it does matter, because “OK he may have been an insurrectionist but he cared passionately about his community blah blah blah” is a message that might as well be “we’re not actually serious about any of this.”
And you know what? They aren’t.
. . . friend of the blog and LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik has thoughts:
As I’ve tweeted, I for one will miss that fat slob because he was such and overstuffed target. I’m taking all the encomiums on social media from other politicians, GOP and Democratic, as pure theater, just something you do. But they had to sit through his displays of faux humility as he took with both hands.
For me, he was the prime hypocrite. He took millions in crop supports while standing on the House floor and talking about the necessity of cutting back SNAP benefits. Of relying on church philanthropy instead of government programs because, “you know that comes from the heart.
My partial collection of LaMalfiana:
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-jul-24-la-fi-mo-farm-bill-20130724-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-lamalfa-20131017-story.html
None of the slobbering coverage I’ve seen so far mentions the town hall meetings he held back in August, where his constituents–dyed in the wool Republicans–vilified him for holding the first such town halls in EIGHT YEARS and swanking around the stage like an arrogant prick.
It’s regrettable that he wasn’t forced to witness his own political extinction, thanks to California’s redistricting.