George Will: GOP won't investigate Jan. 6 because of the 'terror it feels for its own voters' https://t.co/pLpsrvHLHu
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George Will said on ABC's "This Week" roundtable that the Capitol riot on January 6 deserves to be "burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11, because it was that scale of a shock to the system."
GEORGE WILL:
Well, it's controversial for one reason. We have something new in American history. We have a political party defined by the terror it feels for its own voters. That's the Republican Party right now.
Every elected official is frightened of his voters, therefore doesn't respect his voters and doesn't like his voters and is afraid that a vote for this would be seen as an insult to the 45th president.
There's no reason -- I mean, McConnell has a point. There are going to be lots of investigations. Journalists are going to go through this. There are 450-some criminal charges being brought with 100 more to come, and there's going to be lots of information about this.
I would like to see January 6th burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11 because it was that scale of a shock to the system. I think there will be a commission, but it is controversial for that reason. (emphasis added)
The nation needs one overall view of the elephant, not 550 stories of what 550 parts of the elephant look like.
Marjorie Taylor Greene recently demonstrated the danger of there being 550+ views of the Shoah. It was one of the more important days of my adulthood when I realized that there were facts of history that are knowable to a far, far stronger liklihood than most of what are inaccurately called facts of science. It is not honestly disputable that January 6th 2021 had an attempted insurrection against electoral democracy with the intent of installing the loser of the election in the presidency. It is not honestly disputable that the Trumps, Hawley, etc. aided, comforted and incited the insurrectionists to violently attack the Capitol to reinstall Trump any more than it is that him being President was the result of the Electoral College, part of the anti-democratic time bomb inflicted on us in the Constitution, the very mechanism that the insurrectionists exploited to impose fascism on the country. Those are facts, there is no relativistic view which doesn't support that fact which is not a lie or a delusion. It is also a danger embedded in the Constitution that the First Amendment doesn't distinguish between the right to tell the truth and that there is no right to lie.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with George Will. A fair number of Republican politicians are not afraid of their voters, they are in agreement with their voters. This is the continuing lie told to somehow excuse the agency and behavior of elected Republican officials. Words are meaningless, actions are king. They should be held accountable for their actions on passing repellant legislation and encouraging conspiracy theories.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Louie Gohmert's a boob, but he's getting put back into office FOR his opinions, not in spite of them.
DeleteAnd more and more of the GOP is going that way.