Looking at the ongoing January 6^th investigation, it becomes clearer and clearer that former president Donald Trump knew that he’d lost fair-and-square to Joe Biden, but he just couldn’t live with it. William Barr, Ivanka Trump, Mark Meadows, et al. all told the president he had lost and that, per Meadows, “there [was] no there there.”

And, per insider Cassidy Hutchinson, we know that Trump knew that those he’d encouraged to gather to protest the certification of the election were armed and dangerous. History will record that none of Trump’s lawsuits, allegations, bullying, or desecration of the Republic got him a second term.

However, that has not deterred the Texas GOP from trying to rewrite history and abet a fascistic fantasy. Fascism rises when a Big Lie, a patent, obvious untruth like “Jews sold Germany out at Versailles” is made a purity test — and that’s exactly what’s underway in Texas where the Texas GOP adopted the following:

Given this platform, those who seek the party’s support will be compelled to adopt this statement that’s at-odds with facts, mathematics, and testimony. The ambitious will subvert their relationship with the truth in pursuit of power.

In several years’ time, when those who were put in place with this untruth are voting on, say, US History textbooks, they will be compelled to adopt, for one of the largest school districts in the nation a book that has a known falsehood embedded in it. And this won’t be something like “The Spanish made friends of the natives” or in “America everyone got to be free” — some sort of cajolery to the sense of collective guilt for the contemptible acts perpetrated by the colonists on many — it is a falsehood that is utterly false.

At the very least, this post will exist as that we saw the purpose of their lie, knew their lie’s falsehood, and lamented that one of the Republican party was willing to indulge in this technique of authoritarianism and fascism in order to hold on to power.