Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/opinion/january-6-attack-committee.html

No paywall
https://archive.fo/uXwqJ


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It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, “When can we use the guns?” and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still dominates one of the nation’s two major political parties.

In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists. Rather, survival depends on looking back and forward at the same time.

Truly grappling with the threat ahead means taking full account of the terror of that day a year ago. Thanks largely to the dogged work of a bipartisan committee in the House of Representatives, this reckoning is underway. We know now that the violence and mayhem broadcast live around the world was only the most visible and visceral part of the effort to overturn the election. The effort extended all the way into the Oval Office, where Mr. Trump and his allies plotted a constitutional self-coup.

We know now that top Republican lawmakers and right-wing media figures privately understood how dangerous the riot was and pleaded with Mr. Trump to call a halt to it, even as they publicly pretended otherwise. We know now that those who may have critical information about the planning and execution of the attack are refusing to cooperate with Congress, even if it means being charged with criminal contempt.

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[mbromell69]

1. This story is gonna have a sad ending

We ain't gonna see Trump or his top "generals" facing serious criminal charges for their roles in the failed Jan 6th Coup .... hell Bannon scammed the MAGATs and is daily on his podcast acting like Joseph Goebbels with his constant sack of lies geared to get Trump's Brown Shirts to kill elected Dems and liberals

Rome burned from within ... history is repeating itself here in the USA

[Hekate]

2. John Dean holds out hope-- read this...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216201733

[Skittles]

3. I think America is stronger than Donald Fucking Trump

we will see