![]() ![]() It was an attack on multiracial democracy, which is younger than most members of the Senate. What transpired yesterday was not simply an assault on democracy. The violence was a predictable consequence of the president’s talent for manipulating dark currents of American politics he does not fully comprehend. The chaotic scene in Washington was familiar to American history but foreign to many living Americans-an armed mob seeking to nullify an election in the name of freedom and democracy. ![]() Trump delights in violence as a flattering tribute to his own greatness-in 2015, after several of his supporters assaulted a homeless Latino man in Boston, he praised them as “very passionate.” After watching the mob ransack the Capitol building from afar, Trump released a video half-heartedly urging his supporters to leave, while reassuring the m that they were “very special.” Because you will never take back our country with weakness.”Īs the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the president, who has a keen appreciation for the better part of valor, retreated to the White House to watch the events unfold on television. We are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and -women, and we are probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. After addressing thousands of his supporters who had come to protest the results of the election, Donald Trump called his defeat an “egregious assault on our democracy,” urging the crowd to “walk down to the Capitol. The immediate catalyst for the assault on the Capitol was the president himself. Waving Trump banners and Confederate flags, it forced the evacuation of the building and temporarily delayed the timely ceremonial counting of the electoral votes. The Capitol building of the United States was breached yesterday by a mob seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election at a sitting president’s behest. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |