Let’s Not Forget…
The aim of this week’s insurrection at the Capitol wasn’t just to have a big riot.
It was to disrupt a joint session of Congress as it was happening, called as necessitated by the Constitution to count the Electoral College votes, which had been already certified by all 50 states.
And it was to disrupt it in a way that would force a switch to Trump as the winner, even though he didn’t win. Not even close. And with that, overturn the U.S. government itself. To that end, the F.B.I. appears to be very seriously investigating whether some of those who stormed the Capitol intended to “kill or capture lawmakers or their staffers”.
Because a lot of people by the end of this very same week — especially Republicans — are “forgetting” that. Maybe because it helps them feel less guilty for fomenting what happened by at least tacitly supporting Trump’s endless lies about voter fraud for months. How many times did we hear Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley or any of the majority of House Republicans who still in the end voted to throw out electoral votes in certain states, talk about “unprecedented” allegations of voter fraud, or election irregularities? Yes. It was unprecedented.
But all that was unprecedented was emanating from one source only: Trump. And was lies. And then was parroted out from there by…
