Yes, if they actually pull off prosecuting anybody that will be a step in the right direction.

There is a giant loophole that Republicans have been using though. People used it all through the Mueller investigation and it will likely be used over and over through additional investigations and lawsuits. People ask over and over how can these people say things that are demonstrably false and misleading and get away with it. And the answer is intent. Every time there is an issue that arises that involves intent, well, everybody skates away. When Mueller's team questioned people over and over the problem that came up was they would claim they actually believed the insane stuff they were saying. 

All the Republican scum have embraced this, sometimes in ways that seem counterproductive but it continues to work. 

For example, Mike Lindell has been running around making insane false statements, claiming he had evidence he was going to show the world. Now, as a private citizen he can do this as he has protected free speech but people would ask, is he crazy, stupid, or just attempting to mislead people. His act, perhaps intentionally, was to make himself look crazy or stupid while shouting all kinds of nonsense. He used his moment for advertising his products though and stuck by the old Roy Cohn idea that all press is good. The more mentions you get in the media, no matter what they are about, raises your profile and you become more and more well known. Due to the way Lindell presented himself and his lack of evidence he appears to be...well...mentally ill. This greatly helps him in his defense against the billion dollar lawsuit that is currently aimed at him. 

Basically, you have to show intent that Lindell meant to mislead people but his defense will be he believed every word he said. So, if you want to make a bunch of dumb statements that are obvious lies do so while acting at least a bit nuts. The truth is he likely knew all along he had no evidence but he saw an opportunity to draw attention to himself and his products and he took it. It is what Donald Trump and his kind would call a smart business move.

Lindell made the news almost nightly. Everybody was putting him on and talking to him and about him. He does appear a fool to many but to those that want to believe there was election fraud, Lindell is a hero. He probably skates on the billion dollar lawsuit because they won't be able to establish intent because he did a great job appearing to be mentally ill everywhere he went. Hell, I think he is a simple con man that knew all he needed to do was act crazy and say what people wanted to hear. He should have never been news and in reality people should have ignored him but he had a platform, people loved to either believe him or laugh at him and so everybody invited him on to talk to him. He gave good crazy. 

Rudy and Sidney Powell also like the but I believed it at the time defense. Rudy appeared totally nuts as he went around promoting nonsense. Powell is sort of a different case because her lawyers essentially already admitted Powell knew she was lying and then Powell screwed that up by saying after that she believed the crap she was spewing. So, which is it? Now her lawyers are sticking by the claim Powell was lying with intent to mislead the public but as an attorney she had the right to do so in defense of her client. I honestly don't know how that will play out. I think Rudy could skate on a senility/insanity he just believed everything he said defense, Powell could be the one they get because her lawyers are not taking that route they want to it seems stick by she is allowed to lie and mislead in public statements to help a client defense. I would think that won't work Rudy never broke from his "I'm crazy" act and still hasn't so the question there is does he know what he is doing and this was always going to be his defense or is he really crazy? Tough to prove his intent. 

Trump himself has always been working the "I just believe all this!" position. Even Mueller wanted nowhere near him due to this fact. So, part of the argument not to prosecute Trump on anything involving his lies and misleading the public is totally based on you can't prove his intent to mislead. Sure, he absolutely appears to any sane person to be attempting to mislead pretty much every time he opens his mouth but if he claims 'I believe all that!" you can't prove his intent. So, to prosecute Trump it has to be on a hard crime they have hard evidence of, like tax fraud, where you don't have to prove his intent, you can just say "Here's the crime and here is the evidence."

Trump also appears to be mentally ill and so that completely works in his favor when it comes to intent. 

Basically, this is an ongoing giant loophole in all of these investigations. It would seem counterproductive while trying to sell really stupid lies to the public to act crazy while doing it but it works. It works as a legal defense and a good chunk of the public that should be laughing at you, instead buy in totally because they want to believe. 

Guys like Alex Jones have a complete grasp of this. I think this is part why Trump loves Jones. Jones could sell shape shifting lizards to Kent and turn around and sell everything from false flags to election fraud to a guy like Marc. It is all just a matter of what these people want to believe. It's all fucking crazy but if it is crazy you like, hey, feed me more!

It was sort of funny because Jones would get frustrated with the Q Anon crowd because they were always making very specific predictions. Jones loved the Q Anon bullshit but he kept telling them "Hey, don't keep saying this specific thing will happen on this specific date! When you do that enough times and it does not happen people will stop believing you."

However, so far Q Anon has kept most of their followers despite doing this over and over and the predictions being total nonsense. They just keep sliding the dates back. They claimed on inauguration day Biden, Obama, and Hillary would be arrested and Trump would remain president as he played Village People tunes got on a plane and went to Florida. Then there was a date in March, then May, then August. 

The people that wanted to believe in election fraud just kept going with the next date. They don't care if it is nuts, to them it is another chance to believe. 

I think they should be able to prosecute the guys like Mo Brooks, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and of course loons like Marjorie Greene who make completely false statements in the face of clear evidence that shows their statements are not true. Yes, there is freedom of speech BUT when you are an elected official sworn to an oath to protect and defend and you are quite obviously making misleading statements to further your political agenda you should be removed for this. These people have access to all the same information as the rest of the Senate and/or House and yet, they lie their asses off just to tell their base what they want to hear...even if that information could kill them or create a situation where people are killed and the country attacked like January 6. 

How can Greene get away with going out and saying vaccines don't work and masks don't work which will lead to more deaths and she has the data to show that is not true in her position as a congresswoman? She is intentionally misleading the people, perhaps pointing them to their own graves, and with the intent to create conflict in the country to further help keep the nation a mess and divided? That is the complete opposite of what she is sworn to do. It is not a "political position" to state masks and vaccines don't work. It is an intentional lie with intent to do harm to our nation. 

I can see private citizens getting away with that but elected public officials should not. Normally, I believe their own party would take action against them, as it makes the entire party look bad, but because Trump keeps claiming Greene is his favorite congressperson, the cowards in his party do nothing. Which in all honesty is a dereliction of their oath to the nation. 

So, we have the normalization of deceit and cover-up by Republicans. If the elected officials won't hold their own party members to account, the last best hope becomes the voters. 

The issue with that is the Republican party have totally embraced, through Trump, the worst of their base and elevated them over a normal Republican voter. If you were a sane/normal Republican voter it would make sense if you were enraged at the party because they openly want to appeal to racists and lunatics over you. They are elevating the worst of their party in DC and driving out anybody that represented normal Republican ideals. 

So, we end up at this point, which is basically where we always end up, which is how do we get rid of this vile insanity? The voters have had chances to rid themselves of scum like McConnell, Cruz, and the like...but they don't. The voters are elevating Greene, Gaetz, Jordan, and their kind because they will tell them the lies they prefer to hear. This new breed of Republican is about creating chaos, dissent, and destroying our country. Their goal, as a man once said to me, is to burn it all down so we have no choice but to start over. When we start over though, they mean with a person that is installed, not elected. That answers to no one and has the leeway to destroy whomever he sees as an enemy by whatever means is at their disposal. They don't realize what this will mean for them or they believe if they join in and assist the destruction they will somehow be elevated in the new dictator's eyes. 

See January 6 for proof and what that looks like. Only next time they do this, those empty nooses you see will have heads in them. Be it Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi.