Insurrection: America and Trump Three Years Later

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the January 6th, 2021 deadly insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. And I am more outraged, more disgusted and more disappointed today than I was then.

Let’s start with one simple fact: there would be no J6 without Donald Trump. He is the visionary, the chief architect and prime instigator of the most vile, violent attack on America’s 248-year-old democracy.

Yet three years later, Trump is, shockingly, despite two impeachments, four criminal indictments and 91 felony counts. more popular, more powerful and has a much tighter grip on the Republican Party than he did then. He’s the GOP’s presumptive nominee, leading his opponents by 20–50 points, and who boldly promises dictatorship day-one.

With his Big Lies, Trump has succeeded in revising history. A new Washington Post/University of Maryland poll shows that one quarter of Americans, in particular 34% of Republicans and 30% of independents, now believe it was the FBI which incited the riot. First it was Antifa. And Democrats posing as Trump supporters. And DC cops.

But let’s be clear: it was Trump supporters. Angry, violent, brainwashed Trump supporters. Period. End of fucking story. And they weren’t, as Trump calls them, “loving”. They weren’t “tourists”. They were brutal animals. Who beat…