# Why political forgiveness and cooperation won't be coming any time soon **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 23, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296 "2021-01-23T17:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296/5 "2021-01-25T09:30:44Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > I’m out of the loop here, can you link me to a couple examples of these calls for cooperation? Are you talking about requests for federal blanket pardons for the 1/6 Capitol Riot? No, their comments specifically that Democrats should be “uniting” the country and that impeachment would “drive a wedge”. [This link](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/republicans-object-biden-win-unity-capitol-attack) is a summary of some of the tweets – note that these views have not only been expressed via tweets, but also statements in the Capitol and on political news. This is just a good start to get the gist. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-political-forgiveness-and-cooperation-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon/931296)._