For all the hand wringing in the media?
Joseph R. Biden IS the President of the United States of America….
Trump’s ‘lies’ have been confirmed as that , over and OVER….
Over 700 people have been arrested for their actions Jan. 6 2021….
The Justice Dept. thinks another 1,300 maybe charged…
No court has supported Trump’s lawyers effort to substantiate his ‘lies’….
No situation of the ‘fraud’ that Trump that tried to say happened…
And?
President Trump’s OWN Vice President chose to follow procedures and the law and certified the Biden win…
For all the noise?
In the end?
The American Political system worked….
And that has Donald Trump still whining and crying…
But?
Millions of Americans still see things Trump’s way…
Most of then have felt this way BEFORE Trump organised them and tried to use them for his sole purpose…NOT theirs……..
The country and its leadership must be ever vigilant to make sure another attempt against its system of government is not successful ….
And those who tried a year ago are held to task and their Leader never to gain political office again….and made to pay for his sins…..
For a day or two or maybe a week after the can-you-believe-this-is-happening-in-America events of a year ago, there were those who thought that the shock to the system might upend politics in a profound way.
That the country might speak as one against an attempt to overturn democracy. That the tribal divisions of the era might be overcome by a shared sense of revulsion. That a president who encouraged a mob that attacked Congress in a vain bid to hold onto power might be ostracized or at least fade into exile.
That was then. A year after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol in which supporters of President Donald J. Trump trying to stop final recognition of a certified free and fair election burst through barricades, pummeled police officers and forced lawmakers to flee for their lives, what is most striking is not what has changed, but what has not.
America has not come together to defend its democracy; it has only split further apart. Lies and disinformation spread by the former president have so permeated the political ecosphere that nearly universal outrage has reverted to separate blue and red realities. Far from shunned for what even his own vice president deemed an unconstitutional attempt to thwart the will of the voters, Mr. Trump remains the undisputed powerhouse of his party — and a viable candidate to reclaim the White House in three years…
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In fact, no matter how many times Mr. Trump says the 2020 election was stolen, not a shred of evidence has emerged to prove it. Not one independent authority — no judge, no prosecutor, no governor, no election agency, no news media organization — has found any credible indication of fraud on a scale that would have changed the outcome.
An extensive, monthslong review by The Associated Press of every fraud claim in six battleground states targeted by Mr. Trump found fewer than 475 suspicious votes or attempted votes. That was not nearly enough to swing the results in a single state, much less the three or more necessary to tip the Electoral College, even if all of them had been counted for Mr. Biden, which they were not.
But the extent to which Mr. Trump has shaped the narrative, at least within his own party, would have defied belief a year ago when leaders on both sides of the aisle were seething with indignation at what he had unleashed. At the time, even allies thought Mr. Trump had forever sullied his name in the history books, as indicated by the subsequent investigation….
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For many Republicans, even those who privately despise Mr. Trump and agree that Mr. Biden was legitimately elected, Jan. 6 is a topic to avoid. They bristle at the focus on it, seeing it not as a good-faith effort to find out what happened but a partisan weapon to tear them down and distract from the Democrats’ own failed policies….
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While nearly three-quarters of all Americans view the storming of the Capitol as an assault on democracy, about half of Republicans say the rioters were actually the ones “protecting democracy” and nearly as many think the attack was not even that violent. While most Americans believe Mr. Biden was elected legitimately, seven in 10 Republicans think otherwise….
james’ commentary is perhaps presented inartfully but is basically correct.
What happened a year ago was horrible, but was never going to “succeed.” Yes, the system worked. That also does not mean the system should be better.
Anyone who claimed then or now that the election was somehow “stolen” or that steps should have been taken to overturn it are worthy of tremendous criticism for repeating a lie. However, actions and words are different things. As we saw after the 2020 election, the people who were asked to do wrong or illegal things from Mike Pence to the Trumpist Governor of Georgia to all the GOP nominated Supreme Court Justices to all sorts of more local executives, legislators, and judges “did the right thing.” Those in Congress who shamefully voted to not accept the results of the election knew that the votes were not even close to being there to actually do what they said should be done. They were trying to prove a point, for dumb political reasons, just as Democrats similarly did after 2000, 2004, and 2016, and which we will sadly see again, from the other party, regardless which party wins the 2024 election.
However, when the rubber meets the road, all sorts of people who talk a big game about doing crazy things (and for which they definitely deserve to be denounced) are perhaps less likely to actually be the ones to do it.
I will also say that as much as political junkies and election junkies like us (the rest of you being longtime Democrat partisans and myself being as anti-Trump if not more so than any of you) might have feelings about 1/6/21, Democrats are making a big mistake if they think that this is somehow going to be a big political winner for them in the next election.
The “average person” has moved on, just as they have from 9/11/01. This is not going to help Democrats win one more vote in the 2022 midterms that they do not already have.
The “swing voter” is concerned about the pandemic, inflation/economy, and the perception that crime is out of control.
Everything Biden said today might at least to a generous extent be factually correct but his speech was designed to a partisan audience and was not any effort towards “unity.” It should be recognized for what it was. Frankly, it elevated Donald Trump more than he deserves, but as I have said for a long time, Democrats are the last ones who truly want Trump to “go away.” He is still their best possible distraction from other matters of governance.
I will also note the absolute hysteria of the Trumpists now in hating Ted Cruz because he used the term “violent terrorist attack.” People on HHR for example who have been Cruz’s biggest fans for years are now “done with him.”
A Sullovan, MO woman who was set to plead guilty in the Capitol Insurrection drove drunk on the interstate the other night and killed another driver. She should have been locked up.
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https://www.kmov.com/news/sullivan-woman-charged-in-capitol-insurrection-arrested-for-dui-after-fatal-wrong-way-crash/article_df5192ee-6e91-11ec-8ae1-b76c7b5940cb.html?block_id=990844
Laws Alone Won’t Save Democracy
Jonathan Bernstein: “Trump wasn’t deterred after the 2020 election by the plain meaning of the law and the Constitution. Had enough Republicans in key positions gone along with him, it’s quite possible he would have successfully remained in office despite losing the election, and that would be even more true in a future scenario in which Trump allies held congressional majorities.”
“Moreover, there’s always a danger of fighting the last war. In 2020, the threat seemed to be in what happened after the votes were counted. Next time, the threat could be in the counting of the ballots, or what happens before the ballots are counted. What this means is that those who support the republic will need to fight for it, and not just through legislative fixes.”