Right-wing influencers, GOP lawmakers, and other conservatives love to talk about how they are bringing masculinity back. And yet, the almost exclusively male Republican leaders in Congress are such a pathetic and emasculated bunch that the term that best describes them is not fit for print. But we’ll give you a hint: It rhymes with “plucks.”

They have not only abdicated their own power by neutering the legislative branch so that Donald Trump can do whatever he wants, they also go to embarrassing lengths to avoid criticizing their president because they are afraid of him and their own voters.

That was never more evident than on Tuesday, the anniversary of the day when a Trump-inspired mob stormed their workplace five years ago to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

To commemorate the occasion, the White House put out a website that rewrites the reality of that day in a way that is, quite frankly, offensive and gross.

It not only lionizes the violent insurrectionists as victims and calls their prosecution “one of the darkest wrongs in modern American history,” but also repeats Trump’s Big Lie and blames then-Vice President Mike Pence, whom some of the rioters wanted to hang, for not having the courage to go allow with the attempted coup.

This only happened five years ago, so we all (should) remember what really happened that day… and that includes Republican lawmakers running for their lives and cowering in fear because they were scared of the cop-beating mob.

Of course, you wouldn’t know that based on Tuesday’s reaction.

Our main “profile in cowardice” award goes to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who was asked about the White House website and what it said.

As Republicans do when they don’t want to comment on the latest insane thing Trump has said or done, he expressed ignorance.

“I haven’t seen what they put on their website,” Thune told reporters.

He then went on to praise the Capitol Police, who were blamed on the White House website for escalating the situation five years ago, for doing a “great job around here” before adding some platitudes about appreciating the work of law enforcement around the country.

It is beyond us why any of the Capitol Hill reporters present didn’t immediately pull out their phones to show Thune what, exactly, it is that the White House “put on their website.” Then again, our expectations for the congressional press corps aren’t exactly high.

Other lawmakers went a step further in their rewriting of history.

Like Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), who is trying to become his state’s next senator.

“On this day in history in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers and others gathered in Washington, DC, to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the US Capitol building,” the lawmaker stated.

Not to be outdone, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) went to the Senate floor for a six-minute speech that was stunningly detached from reality and riddled with lies.

Now, if you were in a coma for the past five years and are unsure what really happened in light of the two competing narratives, here is a good way to figure out who is telling the truth.

You will not find a single Democrat who endorses the “peaceful grandmothers objecting to a stolen election” narrative. However, there are plenty of Republicans who refuse to endorse Trump’s fabulist version of events.

Like his vice president at the time.

“January 6 was a tragic day but it became a triumph of freedom when, after Capitol Police quelled the violence, leaders in both chambers in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy’s work under the Constitution,” Pence stated.

He is right.

And what is almost as tragic as a violent mob trying to overturn the result of an election that their candidate lost is that most Republicans are either too afraid to speak the truth about that day or too deluded to believe it.