For what it's worth, I'm not at all surprised that the mob took to the Capitol on 1/6, given the claims from Trump & Co. that the election was rigged. These people apparently grew to worship him and took every word out of his mouth as absolute truth. I actually know a couple of co-workers who attended a stop-the-steal rally at the city hall in their hometown on 1/6 and they invited me. You can imagine the shock on their face when I told them Biden won and they were buying a lie. These people are legitimately brainwashed. So yeah, when they've drunk the kool-aid and Trump basically tells them to march to the capitol and be "strong" and Mo Brooks tells them to "kick some ass", I was only surprised that more people didn't die that day. It still astonishes me that the Capitol police didn't just open fire and kill a couple of dozen rioters, but in retrospect I imagine that would have only resulted in an escalation of violence, so it's good they didn't do that. I don't believe people like OLB have the intelligence or wisdom to fully understand just how close we came to losing our republic that day. There were dozens of people working behind the scenes in the weeks after the election (we now know) who are largely responsible for this being a ridiculous coup "attempt" and not the beginning of the American Empire.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller