This is in his email today:

I need to open with something other than what the title is referring to and this is tough because it involves a number of people I consider friends, i.e not just friends in politics, but actual friends.

I just have to ask: what were you thinking?

There were real issues about the election. Mark Levin articulated a number of them over the past few months. Judges changed procedures. Secretaries of State sent absentee ballots to everyone. Elections are supposed to be run under a set of rules passed by democratically elected legislatures. But Democrats ran to court and got progressive judges to change those rules or had progressive elections entities or Secretaries of State change them too.

It’s like running a race for President based on the Electoral College and then saying never mind, we’re going with the popular vote. The whole strategy would have been different had it started as a popular vote election. Just ask Hillary Clinton who ran a popular vote campaign despite the Electoral College being in place.

There are legitimate concerns there. Now, to be fair, some of what happened came about because of a global pandemic many people were not taking seriously. A lot of what happened was upheld by Trump appointed judges as proper and reasonable. But there are still legitimate concerns.

Instead, Republicans spent most of their time screaming about fraud when the Trump legal team never, ever, ever claimed fraud in court. Republicans spent time claiming voters had voted who should not have. As of today, more than two months after the general election, the GOP has never presented actual names. In their most credible case in Georgia, the President’s team dismissed the case.

To be sure, some fringe websites have presented names, but their information is bogus and has been debunked.

But time and again, instead of focusing on legitimate legal concerns, the GOP focused on false krakens led by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood. It’s like the GOP campaigned for an Academy Award against Gladiator by putting Rudy in a speedo and filming him with an iPhone while he is flinging his TV remote control yelling “Are you not entertained?” Then some conservatives demanded state legislatures throw out the Electoral College members selected by votes of their citizens — a move that, had the Democrats done it in 2016, would have outraged Republicans.

Instead of exercising any level of humility, Republicans either believed a bunch of lies and would not accept any facts to the contrary or they simply didn’t care and decided to build an army of lies to overwhelm and defeat the truth. Either way, with a clown show of characters straight out of B-Movie casting for Sharknado 27, they failed to persuade the majority of the public that they had real claims.

But they persuaded some, whipped them into a frenzy, told them to fight, fight, fight, and held a rally in Washington. WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU PEOPLE THINKING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?

No, I am not sympathetic to you over major corporations deciding not to give you a penny. No, I am not sympathetic to you getting your internet social media accounts canceled. No, I am not sympathetic to you having your rising career in politics ruined.

You tried to undermine a lawful election, sold a bunch of well meaning and caring people a bill of lies many of them believed while you all knew better behind the scenes, and saw multiple people die in a storming of the Capitol after encouraging these people with fists in the air and atta-boys.

What the hell did you think would happen?

Conservatives are not getting cancelled — seditious a—holes are getting canceled. They are not victims. You are not a victim. This was bound to happen because you overplayed your hand and your action is causing a reaction. It is an equal and opposite reaction. Trying to cancel a presidential election causes a cancelation rebound.

I have written repeatedly and consistently, including yesterday, about my concerns over cancel culture, the left’s power imbalance, the ability of tech companies to silence Christians and conservatives, etc. I have consistently said it was wrong and conservatives need to stand together. I have consistently opposed it and worry now that what you did is going to make it really bad for a whole lot of people who weren’t even with you on canceling the election.

But it really is damn hard to make a coherent case against this after a bunch of you inspired a mob to storm the United States Congress where multiple people went in looking to kill members of Congress. Spare me the special pleadings about the kind souls who just got caught up in the crowd and meant no ill will.

Everything — from the storming of the Capitol to people getting killed to social networks banning you to corporations not giving you money — everything is a logical consequence of you people lying relentlessly for two months and taking advantage of American patriots who care deeply for the country and fear for its future. You preyed on them and turned many of them into a mob. Now you are reaping the whirlwind of your own actions. Unfortunately, the whole of the conservative movement will be even further damaged in the fall out. Every policy goal will be tied to those who stormed the Capitol. Every goal will be undermined by claims of sedition.

Shame on you even as you act like you have none. Shame. What the hell happened to the conservative movement? Are any of you self-reflective at all? Do any of you realize what you did caused what happened? Oh, and don’t be mad at me. I’m just asking questions.