It's Not Only the Left Taking Lessons From January 6, Trump Is Too
the obscenity of it all at the time.If you stitch together the story of what has happened since that ominous day, you realize how much our democracy is being torn apart.While the broken doors, shattered glass, and vandalized statues of the Capitol building have been repaired, the damage to our broken democracy remains.
About 700 of the thousands who descended on the Capitol on January 6 have been arrested and fewer than 100 have been sentenced.There is a special congressional committee investigating that day and what led to it, but key witnesses have revolted.
More stringent safety protocols have been set up inside and outside the Capitol, but some lawmakers refuse to abide by them, and a few have even argued to bring their guns on the House floor.Many members of Congress, including Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy, and key Donald Trump supporters like Fox’s Sean Hannity, spoke out forcefully following the Capitol siege and condemned Trump for his role.
Then, like a toss of a coin, these same flip-floppers retracted their outrage and resumed their fealty to Trump.Some GOP House members — the usual ilk of fringe cases such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, and Jim Jordan — started to defend the insurrectionists.
