January 6, 2020 will be about the only thing Trump will be remembered for fifty years from now. It was a ham-fisted attempt to overthrow a free and fair election. Sixty lost court cases, the FBI, international observers and countless local election officials agree, Trump lost fair and square. Trump wanted to stay president to avoid jail. So he asked his most hardcore supporters to show up in DC promising "...it will be wild." They did and it was. I still not get my head around the thought process, "We'll overthrow the government and go back to work next Monday." Mitch McConnell, for once in his life, did something good. He certified the vote that night.
It hurt my mind too much to watch it unfold on live TV. "There is no way the mob can win here." I told myself. I thought there was no real plan but it now looks like there was. Like all things Trump, it was harebrained, seat-of-the-pants and doomed to failure. After a few hours and unnecessary injuries and deaths it fizzled out. Unknown to the rioters Uncle Sam had a contingency plan that could have turned the affair into a much larger bloodbath. Thank God that did not happen. Dead martyrs are good for growing movements. The monster Trump created, the MAGA crowd, still stalks the land, haunts the Republican Party and threatens what little is left of our Democracy.
Most of those arrested will regret that day as they realize how bad felonies are for careers. There's no way back to January 5, 2021. Trump and his MAGA mob will destroy the Republican Party in the coming months and years. Policies based on fear and lies are doomed to failure sooner or later. But they will not go quietly. It is up to Democrats, Independents, Greens and sane Republicans out-vote, out-smart and out-work MAGA in 2022, 2024 and beyond. If we give up, we can still lose.
Let's see where we are a year from now...
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