How Louisiana Republicans Trumpeted the Big Lie: Gen. Mayhem
On Nov. 9, 2020, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, acting in his capacity as Chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, announces that he and other GOP members were taking legal action aimed at invalidating mail-in votes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Image credit: Lamar White, Jr. | Bayou Brief. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” —Mark Twain, autobiographical dictation, Dec. 2, 1906. PROLOGUE In the late morning of Jan. 6, 2021, only a few minutes after President Donald Trump took the stage at the Ellipse, t...