It is simply amazing! Who could have known?
On January 6th, 2021, following a fiery, encouraging, mob promoting speech by outgoing President Donald Trump, thousands of MAGA maniacs attacked the U.S. Capital building in an attempt the stopping of the certification of the 2020 election.
You remember the TV footage of throngs storming the building, threatening the lives of Trump Vice-President Mike Pence and Congresswoman Nancy Pelossi.
Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House of Representatives for “incitement of insurrection” The was subsequently acquitted by the Republican controlled Senate.
In a press encounter in the early morning of November 4, the day after the 2020 election, Trump maintained his false narrative of Democratic cheating by declaring himself the winner and denouncing the ongoing counting of absentee ballots as a “fraud on the American people.” During the next several weeks he continually accused Biden and the Democrats of having stolen the presidential election and repeated conspiracy theories involving ballot stuffing, dead voters, and malicious voting-machine software that deleted or changed millions of votes for Trump.
Trump reportedly watched the action at the White House, never lifting a finger for hours to stop the Capital attack.
Police were brutalized, the building was ravaged, but eventually melee put down.
Directly following the incursion, when order was restored and the Biden certification finished, Republican leaders, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the mob attempting to overturn the election results had been provoked by former President Donald Trump. McConnell thanked the Capitol Police for their bravery on the anniversary and called the deadly insurrection a "dark day for Congress and our country."
Former House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the destruction and chaos undemocratic. Senators and representatives demanded accountability by Trump’s actions, or lack thereof.
But wait!
History can be rewritten with time. Trump’s role in the riot and the riot itself were whitewashed over time.
But Trump’s return to power has diminished — or erased — many of those consequences. The federal prosecution against Trump ended after his November win, and the state case — in Georgia — is in peril after an appeals court disqualified the prosecutor. His campaign promises of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants have undermined the pending cases. And his intra-party critics are more estranged from today’s GOP than ever, out of office and effectively shouting from the sidelines.
A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found the 58% of Republicans still believed that President Joe Biden was not elected legitimately.
McCarthy again said those who broke the law should face legal repercussions, but tried to turn the focus to the security of the Capitol, a message being repeated by other Republicans.
“Unfortunately, one year later, the majority party seems no closer to answering the central question of how the Capitol was left so unprepared and what must be done to ensure it never happens again,” he wrote in a letter to House Republicans. “Instead, they are using it as a partisan political weapon to further divide our country."
By the time the 2024 Presidential race began, more and more brain fogginess took place. Soon, it was all the Democrats fault and along with high inflation (not caused by the Biden administration actions) people were more than willing to forget.
It took decades for defenders of the Confederacy to rewrite the history of the Civil War to recast Southern rebels’ treasonous attack against the United States as an act of honor and courage.
It took Donald Trump a mere fraction of that time to accomplish the same feat for his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.
In a HuffPost piece by S.V. Date- “What they have in common is that in both cases a story is propagated that a portion of the population wants to hear because it absolves them, or those in their in-group, of a transgression of not just the law, but of commonly held moral principles,” said Gabriel Reich, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who has studied how the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction is taught in schools.
“Liberal democracies really struggle with bad-faith actors who manipulate existing rules and norms to their own benefit,” he added.
Tom Joscelyn, a counterterrorism expert who served on the staff of the House Jan. 6 committee and was a co-author of its report, said he still finds it hard to believe that people could watch what happened that day unfold on television and then still accept Trump’s version of it. Unlike children growing up in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, for whom the Civil War was generations in the past, Trump’s followers and allies are rejecting readily available evidence of contemporary violence.
“All you need is the images and the videos from that day, his own words, and what you saw with your own eyes, and it was clear that he had crossed some bright lines,” he said. “All of that should have been disqualifying, and it wasn’t.”
Now Republican President-elect Donald Trump has promised to grant clemency to at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Trump has said he expects to begin doing so shortly after he is sworn in to office on Jan. 20, but has not been specific about how many of the more than 1,580 people charged in the attack could be granted clemency.
Why not! After all, the January 6th insurrection/riot/whatever, was only a figment of our imagination. It never really happened. All the TV footage and media reporting/convictions were all staged.
The people who died, or were wounded, never really existed. It was all a bad dream, one the American people want to put behind them as promises of a bright future is about to blossom.
Eliminate taxes, no worries about climate change, peace on earth, no inflation, U.S. isolation, high tariffs on imported goods, rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, take over Greenland, along with the Panama Canal. Yes, Trump will not rule out force to take Panama Canal and Greenland, just a few of the pie-in-the-sky dreams on the horizon. President-elect Donald Trump has continually tried to recast Jan. 6 as a "day of love." The man and MAGA are bat-shit crazy.
Congress easily certified his electoral victory Monday (1/6/25).
Republicans didn’t try to deny the election results like they did after Trump lost in 2020. Democrats didn’t object to Trump’s win, and Vice President Kamala Harris presided over her own loss peacefully.
Yes, Americans/we have dumbed down to new low levels of damnability and denial and the ‘fun’ is only just beginning, as we say goodbye to Democracy.
