Democrats Cling To J6 Mania Because They Can’t Appeal to Facts or Their Failed Policies
Our betters use January 6 to cast half the country as domestic terrorists as a pretext to crack down on dissent and run roughshod over democracy to "save" it--because that's the only card it has left
Democrats Cling To J6 Mania Because They Can’t Appeal to Facts or Their Failed Policies
From President Joe Biden’s pretentious speeches to schizophrenic media coverage to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sham committee, the left has used Jan. 6 as the shaky scaffolding on which to railroad the rest of the country, in part because it serves as the singular manifestation of its fever dreams – that there is a coup around every corner and a frothing-mad MAGA monster under every bed.
The problem is that Jan. 6, as shameful, pathetic, and unacceptable as were the actions of its worst offenders, was not comparable to 9/11, or Pearl Harbor, or the worst of the Civil War. By scope, violence, and destruction, it pales in comparison to the summer riots of 2020.
The hyperbolic comparisons are a charade – and not just because the facts belie the claims of a murderous insurrection of armed terrorists, as the federal judges most perturbed by Jan. 6 have lamented. (That is, judges are upset prosecutors can’t make legal cases to match the ruling regime’s political one.)
In a new piece at The Federalist, I lay out the facts demonstrating that the Democrats doth protest too much when it comes to what transpired on January 6 and its significance, and explain why in Week One of a midterm election year, Democrats appear to be all in on playing the Capitol Riot card above all others.
Below, a taste:
We…know it [the hyping up of January 6 as on par with the worst attacks in American history] is a charade because of the dishonesty and obfuscation around it. If the truth supported the narrative, why not charge the accused with insurrection, sedition, and/or terrorism?
Why consistently insinuate that protesters killed officers when they didn’t? Why emphasize the “armed” nature of the breach when not one of the people who the left would presume to be gun nuts has been charged with carrying a firearm in the Capitol – of the no more than five people charged with a firearm offense associated at all with the events of Jan. 6?
Why conceal thousands of hours of footage? Why stonewall about federal informants and leave prominent co-conspirators unindicted? Why not question the authorities who reportedly let hundreds waltz right in? Why stack the deck in a Soviet show trial-style congressional committee? Why doctor evidence and dissemble about basic facts of the day’s events?
It is clear that, consistent with authorities’ admission that the vast majority of Jan. 6 participants were not associated with any group, and the reporting on the mental state, physical condition, and non-criminal backgrounds of many of the accused, that what transpired was not some Al-Qaeda-style operation of sophisticates. Rather, among the violent minority of the 700-plus mainly charged with misdemeanors – out of tens of thousands of peaceful Americans in D.C. – it was an appalling display of lashing out and LARPing over several hours on one day.
That is the extent of the MAGA mayhem used to cast tens of millions of conservatives as insurrectionists or their would-be co-conspirators. Disturbing? Certainly. Criminal? Absolutely. A terrorist attack? On what planet?
To highlight these points is not to downplay, condone, or excuse the crimes perpetrated on Jan. 6, but to illustrate the disingenuousness with which the day has been portrayed, in service of an arguably far more disastrous effort to crush dissent that itself represents a rolling insurrection against liberty and justice for all.
More:
…The charade goes deeper when one considers Democrats’ tolerance for virtually every aspect of Jan. 6 under differing political conditions.
Democrats do not oppose challenging elections. They did so the last three times Republicans won the presidency.
Democrats do not bat an eye at claiming a presidency is illegitimate. They said the same for the last five years, and to this day, about the election of Donald Trump.
Democrats have few qualms about the use of political violence. Politicians, media, and academics at best whitewashed the vastly more widespread, violent, and destructive summer riots of 2020, and at worst actively funded and cheered them on. Those riots were putatively rooted in the factually incorrect idea that cops indiscriminately target and kill black males en masse, and the dubious idea that the criminal justice system is racist. The participants in those riots, incidentally, were arguably never pursued with the same vigor, or prosecuted to the same extent, as the Jan. 6 participants.
Democrats in principle have no problem backing actual terrorists. It was the Obama-Biden administration, the policies of which continue under the latter one, that explicitly supported making the Muslim Brotherhood — the tip of the spear of Sunni Islamic supremacism — and the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the Middle East’s hegemons.
When it comes to Jan. 6, it is self-evident that facts cannot get in the way of a good narrative, and merits cannot get in the way of politics.
Read the whole thing here.
I’ve had a number of interviews regarding January 6 this week, a couple of which you can find below. More to come...
Whoever first used the term Insurrection (the first unarmed got overthrow in human history) would tell us a lot.