AUDIO: EPPC’s Yuval Levin and Mona Charen on Need to Know Podcast

There has been a lot of depressing rhetoric lately about purportedly partisan assaults on our democracy. That’s why recent bipartisan talks to rewrite the Electoral Count Act of 1887 are a refreshing and much-needed antidote.

Many moderate House Democrats surely voted for the Build Back Better bill with serious misgivings. They know in their guts they are likely walking a political plank for their party — and they’re right.

The days are past when the American hierarchy could be cowed by the political and journalistic principalities and powers and the “progressive” Catholic media.

Republicans rightly worry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will descend into a partisan, anti-Donald Trump witch hunt. But the best way to minimize the chances of that happening is to participate in the investigation.