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An Armed Insurrection
Since Jefferson Davis, we have not had a leader of this country try to do what Donald Trump did. He ordered the magnetometers removed so his armed fans would be able to hear the speech was bad enough. He wanted to go with his people to assault Congress.
It was about stopping the count. It was about declaring Trump the winner. It was a coup.
It is that simple.
What concerns me is the reaction on the far right. They don’t care. In fact, this whole thing is best described as highly produced theater. Worse as borderline illegal. Remember, what they wanted to do was overturn a legal election. Many participated in a coup attempt and people like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were indicted of seditious conspiracy, with at least one Oathkeeper accepting guilt.
None of this is minor, or a nothing burger.
Since the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe appeals to violence have increased in far-right spaces. The misogyny is off the charts. Why? Rape is something many of the Pepe the Frog crowd dreams off, and I am not kidding. Then there are the appellations to bashing skulls, lefty skulls of course. Why? It’s not just that these political opponents are seen as political opponents, to many in the right this is about white supremacy, traditional family, and banishing demons from the United States. Nor do they accept…