We can all thank Donald Trump for this.
He provided just what the left and wannabe tyrants needed. He reinforced what the most extreme people in
the media and the Democrat Party couldn’t prove for years. At the same time, he managed, in a matter of
days, to set up his loyal and overwhelmingly innocent supporters for derision
and discrimination that may last for years. Whatever good he accomplished in
his term – and he did much good – he pissed away because he refused to
accept defeat and move on.
He also cost Republicans control of the Senate by suppressing
the vote of many of his usual supporters in Georgia; he made them doubt whether
their vote would count at all. He did go
to Georgia to rally for the Republican candidates, but only the night before the
election, and even then spent much of his time alleging that Georgia Republican
officials let him down.
In essence, as always, it was all about him. The Republican candidates lost as a result.
Now he is about to be impeached for the second time. Only
this time, sad to say, he may be convicted in the Senate. This could happen partly
because he tried to coerce his dwindling number of Republican allies into
falling on their swords for him in a fruitless and ill-advised attempt to
overturn the last election. When they hesitated, he called them spineless and
worse.
Then he called for his supporters to descend on DC on
January 6 to show their support for his claims that the election was stolen
from him. They did that by the thousands. Mixed in with the normal Trump supporters
were extremists spoiling for a fight; some of them sporting tactical gear and helmets,
backpacks, police-style zip-tie handcuffs, pepper spray, gas masks, knives, and
firearms, and, apparently discovered later, some explosives.
Whether they were all Trump supporters is still an open question,
yet with a little provocation from Trump and Giuliani to “fight like hell” to “stop
the steal” of the election they stormed the Capitol. They overwhelmed the
Capitol police and ran through the halls of Congress, taking trophies, posing for
selfies in legislative offices, hunting key Congressional leaders and even Mike
Pence, and generally sending any Representatives and Senators running for
cover.
Five people died from the riot, including a Trump supporter
shot by Capitol Police.
It was an unprecedented
mob attack on our government. It was a complete
disgrace. There is no way to justify what happened. Spare me the “Trump never
told them to riot,” or Trump told them to be “peaceful.” Trump brought
thousands to DC for the express purpose of intimidating Congress. He provoked
them by telling them Congress was in the process of validating a fraudulent
election. He blamed Congress for not
stopping this travesty.
What did he expect to happen?
He claims he bears
no responsibility for what happened. He recently said officials have reviewed
what he said and found nothing that incited the rioting. In fact, he condemned
the violence. He said he would never
tell his supporters to attack the Capitol.
He didn’t need to say it out loud; they were there, he fired them up,
and provided just enough spark to set off the crazies.
I’m done with
Trump. I am so furious about how he’s
managed to embarrass us all – and set off a reign of terror against anyone who
ever supported him – because he’s too small of a man, too self-centered, and
too egotistical to step up and recognize that more people voted against
him than for Joe Biden. Here’s the proof: while Biden won at the top of the
ticket, Republicans won the down ballot races practically everywhere. Trump lost in the same states Republicans
picked up seats in the House.
Was the election stolen
from him, as he claims? I don’t think so. Was there widespread voter fraud?
There’s always voter fraud but I don’t believe it alone cost him the election.
So was it rigged
against him? I believe it was. Net/net though, he still lost. It’s over.
Much worse things
are about to happen to the country as a
whole, and to Trump supporters in particular.
The political establishment – and especially the left – are using what happened
in the last days of Trump’s term to settle old scores, real or imaginary.
Democrats in Congress, their friends in
the media and career bureaucrats are positively giddy over the gift Trump has
delivered.
Never-Trumpers in
the Republican Party and big business want to use this moment to wipe out all
vestiges of Trump’s populist movement and get back to business as usual. Siding
with them are the social media platforms and tech giants who are using what
happened as a pretext to censor anyone with whom they disagree. Multinational
corporations and their lobbyists are thrilled to be back in control of Congress
and the legislative agenda.
China is thrilled to
have an old ally like Joe as President.
The intelligence community and Justice Department are ecstatic to be charged
with cracking down on “dangerous extremist” groups, such as the NRA and the Tea
Party, and anyone who thinks the Bill of Rights supersedes the views of
career bureaucrats and politicians – like many Trump supporters. Democrats are happy they can now stop any
further investigations into corruption by Biden and his family; instead, they
can now use their new-found majorities to punish Trump, his family, and his
donors for at least two years.
I mention two years
because that’s really all the time they have. Once Trump is out, and his
supporters get over the past two months of Trump-fostered craziness, they aren’t
going to disappear and go away. They’ll remember how the Democrats and the
media treated them before and even more so after Trump. If anything, the left’s
promised purge of Trump supporters from social media platforms, employment, and
elected office will backfire.
And in two years
there will be another Congressional election.
People will
remember. There will be hell to pay,
then.
