This article from January 7, 2021 was prescient: Don't Let Them Pretend This Didn't Happen

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/dont-let-anyone-pretend-this-didnt-happen/617588/

No paywall
https://archive.fo/M9rVh

*snip*

Nothing indicates that Trump is chastened by yesterday’s experience. He published both a video and a tweet yesterday in which he called on the mob to go home peacefully, but he did not condemn its actions, and he repeated the incitements that drove it to riot in the first place. Even his faux–concession statement falls well short. Its mention of a “first term” leaves space for him to continue to contest the race, and besides, we’re past the point of an “orderly transition.” A Trump-incited violent insurrection swept through the Capitol less than 24 hours ago!

Meanwhile, the least scrupulous Trump allies, like Representatives Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks, are already trying to shift the blame for the riot, claiming that it was the work of left-wing provocateurs. This is preposterous—as the journalist Molly Ball points out, “Trump literally summoned these people to DC, spoke at their event, offered to walk them over to the Capitol and then praised them afterward.”

Others, like Senator Ted Cruz, are trying to split the baby. “The attack at the Capitol was a despicable act of terrorism and a shocking assault on our democratic system,” he said in a statement. “The Department of Justice should vigorously prosecute everyone who was involved in these brazen acts of violence.” If Cruz were serious, he might be calling for prosecution of the president and also himself—after all, as the mob approached the Capitol, Cruz was inside offering frivolous objections to the certification, after weeks of spreading the false rumors that incited the crowd. Cruz is, as usual, not serious.

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[uponit7771]

1. Germany did similar in the 1950s, they all got amnesia about how bad Nazis were ...

... and their children told them about themselves later on.

[Achilleaze]

2. It's freaking Satanic to distort the truth so perversely

and to lie lie lie all the time.