It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Treason
It’s the time of the year to celebrate in the winter holidays. However, at this time of good cheer and be merry, we are getting confirmation of what many of us suspected. January 6 was treason, and not just because I like the sound of the word. In the very technical sense, it was an attempt to overthrow the government.
I suspected it, from word go. Why? Who was present at the Trump hotel the previous night, and the tours given by representatives. The language used by many Republicans and the refusal to go along into an investigation made this transparent.
Now we got receipts.
The question is what to do with this information at this point?
In an ideal situation, Republican leadership would do more than obstruct, instead, they put their fingers in their ears, and go la, la, la. They would not continue to write fan fiction and misrepresent what happened in far-right, so-called news, spaces. Fox News is hardly alone and should change their name to Fox Fan Fiction at this point.
However, there is a strong minority of the country that is ready for the lies. This is because they want an end to American democracy. They claim otherwise, but democracy demands we allow minorities to vote freely. These are the same people who desire to stop this. This is why electoral laws are shaped to add as many obstacles as possible. This is why cities are centers of degeneracy and electoral fraud in their fevered imagination.
This is why they recoil at critical race theory, a product of law school, and not taught in k-12, no matter what they tell you. The mere idea that we must re-examine American history through a lens of race relations sends them recoiling. Why? This is ideology, that presupposes all that is good with the country is white and Christian. It is an extremely nativist and provincial ideology, that happens to intersect with a global far-right (white supremacy) movement.
This far-right movement feels under threat as people of color secure political power around the world. They also know that they are no longer dominant, partly due to patterns of migration. One explanation for this is a Jewish plot to replace whites, control the media and business, and of course blood libel. All this is recycled antisemitic tropes Donald Trump is part of this, not exceptional.
What we saw on J6 was treason.
I am not going to sugarcoat it.
This was about keeping a white supremacist in power, and not recognizing the democratic process. There were members of Congress who were part of this. There were members of the cabinet or former members of the cabinet who were involved as well.
I am willing to bet that the former president and his family were up to their necks in this. I have suspected this from the beginning.
The question is will the Justice Department act? Going after foot soldiers is always easy. A former president, cabinet members, and members of Congress get a little more tricky. It is eminently political for starters because this DoJ is Democratic. So yes, this will become political in certain spaces. In fact, it already is.
My, as always, many thanks to all, stay safe and well....
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