“The hope of impunity, is a strong incitement to sedition: the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.” — Alexander Hamilton
It happened. And we have just carried on as if it isn’t a screaming warning of what may be coming if we don’t fix this country.
Some people think it was no big deal at all:
Oh, these sorts of people could easily have found a tree limb to throw that rope over. It wouldn’t be the first time.
If you have a sub. to the NY Times, I highly recommend their latest video narrative of that day:
Jan. 6, 2021 — 4:17 p.m. Inside the United States Capitol, the mayhem is winding down. But outside, an angry mob is roiling.
President Trump uses Twitter to falsely assert, once again, that the election he lost was “fraudulent.” Still, he tells the rioters and trespassers that it is time to go home.
They do not.
4:27 p.m. With dusk approaching, violence erupts. The Trump-inspired rioters attack the police guarding the Capitol, using flagpoles, crutches — even chunks of wood — as they wage a medieval civil war.
That we have just carried on as if this is perfectly normal and the press has reverted to “both-sidesing” politics is just astonishing.