Patrick Buchanan – The Unz Review Jan 7, 2021
“Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.”
That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last.
On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of that awful day,” the “once-unthinkable trauma.”
Still, a year later, said the Times, “the Republic faces an existential threat,” as the “Capitol riot … continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.”
“We should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. … (our) democracy … is in grave danger.”
What the Times is saying is that the electoral reforms being enacted democratically in red states — requiring voter IDs, for example, and subject to judicial review — are a Republican continuation of the Capitol riot.
Why cannot our liberal media let it go? Why does the distortion and hysteria about Jan. 6 seem to grow with each retelling?
Now, undeniably, as I wrote in a column the next morning, Jan. 6 was “The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists.”
“The worst of the day’s events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the Mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.
“Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed …
“What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic.” I added, “And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency.”
That last line understated what an obsession Jan. 6 has become for the nation’s establishment and media elite.
The left cannot let go of Jan. 6. Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.
Though Trump was exonerated by the Senate of the impeachment charge brought by Nancy Pelosi’s House, the House select committee wants to try Trump again and again in the court of public opinion and wants President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to find some crime with which to charge and convict him.
There are other reasons the left cannot let go of Jan. 6.
Democrats have no other issue on which to run this November.
The Biden presidency has produced an uninterrupted string of disasters: the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the Texas border crisis, inflation, an explosion of gun violence and murders setting records in Democrat-run cities, failure to produce an adequate federal response to the delta and omicron waves of COVID-19.
Again, Jan. 6 was a riot, involving assaults on Washington and Capitol cops and the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.
But was Jan. 6 really the planned coup, the terrorism, the sedition, the armed insurrection, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government?
Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour’s time and major wars followed — as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?
If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?
Thus far, all the charges prosecuted and punished are consistent with a riot, which is what Jan. 6 was. Comparisons of this three-hour mob action to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are almost sacrilegious.
Was that QAnon shaman occupying the chair in the Senate chamber really the moral equivalent of Mohamed Atta ramming an airliner into the World Trade Center or Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plotting the Dec. 7 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
Another reason for the left to paint up the horror of that day is that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 were not the radical left who battled cops and burned and looted Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee and scores of other cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.
They were the “deplorables” of Trump, the populists of the American right, against whom any slander is justified.
Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left’s belief in American democracy?
What does that tell us about the left’s trust in the people?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
A year out of the frying pan and into the fire, there are NO memories of the TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) troops, the wire fence topped with concertina, just THIS insane over-reaction burned into peoples’ memory.
As it should be, they are all gone but not forgotten. No more mean tweets either.
IT is inevitable : with feminism, transgender,
perversion, jewish leftism. abolishing tradition
+ ignoring knowledge of historic pains abolishing
tribal structures + rules west will go into the abyss
and no peace will come with AI 5G nano chip vax.
all your wishful thinking is in vain .
“… the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate (or more importantly INVALIDATE) the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.”
Notice how the same corporatocracy – the US military, industrial, financial, legal, media and government complex – has inflated this relatively insignificant issue to gigantic proportions in the land of the pseudo free such that the people have lost sight of the reason for the protest in the first place which was the totally rigging of their electoral system and the outright stealing of the election in that year 2000 election. Notice how so many of the so-called “small c” conservatives were so horrified because some younger spirits thought there should be more life and meaning to their protest even if it did take a few Antifa types to set things off.
The duped Trump supporters showed up from all in very orderly, legally-compliant, private-school fashion no doubt with police permits for every step, but their fake leader who invited them there was nowhere to be seen. They continue to believe in their fallen and corrupt system and it is clear that if there is to be a grass roots movement to mount a real opposition to the tyranny now upon us and we are to change things it can have nothing whatsoever to do with any of the established political parties, all of which are controlled by the same corrupt complex.
Umm no.
Give it a rest.
I watched live footage from seven different attendees broad cast LIVE by a commentator on D-live.
Calling this a “riot” is a complete farce.
In previous months we had watched the left’s little hand puppets burn down businesses and kill citizenry in city after city, only to be released with money from Kamala Harris’ campaign staffers. Filthy crack addled retards were bussed in in Seattle and Protland to sert fire to the city, (and largely start fires for “climate change” propaganda up and down the coast)..and set up the “summer of love” in occupied seattle. Throwing molitov cocktails at police was tolerated…as was holding hostages.
On the Jan 6 footage i watched, it is VERY CLEAR that the Capitol Police opened the door at first to let in a bunch of black clad “protestors”, probably antifa..and then minutes later opened the door to the rest of the “protestors”..who largely strolled through the capitol building sightseeing and or praying.
I also witnessed people dressed like antifa, in the bushes at the Trump rally, changing into clothes to blend in with Trump supporters…
THE WHOLE THING WAS A FALSE FLAG..WHICH IS FAIRLY OBVIOUS.
Most likely run by the terrorist organization known as the “FBI”.
US elections have been fake for the last 100 years at least.
So Trump or Biden really makes little difference except to divide and persecute.
In February 2021, if you recall, the CABAL THAT DETERMINED THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION BOASTED ABOUT IT RIGGING IT IN TIME MAGAZINE.
To call this $h!tshow “democracy” is an insult to anyone’s intelligence.
It is very clear with this latest iteration of dumb and dumber in the WH that the Federal Government has decided it is above the law..which is unfortunate for it, because the law is the actual foundation of it’s supposed authority.
Cutting off the branch on which it sits .
In other words- the federal government has rendered itself illegitimate.
Act accordingly.
Stop lying. There were no BLM people there. There were no Antifa people there also. Donald Trump supporters and Qanon people were there to threaten Mike Pence by saying “Hang Mike Pence”. There are tons of video of police officers being assaulted. Where’s your proof Antifa people blending in the crowd. You have none. So stop lying. You have people like Peter Navarro actually admitting to the “Green Bay Sweep” and actually saying on TV that they were going to decertify the votes have Mike Pence ignore the will of the people. Fortunately, Pence did not go with the coup and put the will of the people above party, above the coup and did the right thing in certifying the votes, acknowledging that Biden won the election. He had no authority to decertify the votes. You people are sad.
Trump lost the election. Get over it. This website has gone down hill. The website has become a shill for Donald Trump. Where are the pictures or videos of Antifa people blending with Trump supporters. You don’t have any because it does not exist. Mike Pence did the right thing and certified the votes. Biden won the election.
A million Americans could have taken the government, should have, did nothing, yet are accused of doing something bad–smashed a bit of furniture or something, an act of vandalism (which Antifa did anyway) that is compared to Pearl Harbour being attacked by Japan in 1941, sinking many ships. This is four-dimensional lying.
‘Where’s your proof Antifa people blending in the crowd. You have none. So stop lying. ‘ etc
The ignorant TONE of that and the following comment with its inevitable talk of ‘shills’, again in complete ignorance of what that means, are so nauseatingly childish, rude and ignorant in a particularly clichéd way that those are both definitely White, Middle Class College ‘educated’ males of the type that clog up the Internet everywhere on the mainstream ‘net and are the real Voice of the Left beneath all the meccano-phrase academic jargon and Woke sentimentality about Tolerance and Diversity.
So I am commiting myself to getting and posting up links to that footage, and will share them when I get them – looking good so far –
‘Yes, there is definitely footage of Antifa people changing into red Trump gear (shirts, hats, etc.) and even the person recording these people calls them out and asks them what they are doing (no response). I know because I have seen it.
The question is whether I can find it again. I will attempt to locate it and if I do, will forward ASAP!’
And the proof of Election Fraud is so copious and conclusive it can be found on this very site, but it is easily found anyway – not on Google of course – if you decide to take off your Radical Robot blinkers (but they never do) and stop being such a rebel that your worldview coincides precisely with that of a highly paid MSM News Anchor not questioning why that SUV driven into a peaceful Christmas gathering and killing five people on site last December suddenly dropped off his/her autocue.
Hereyago –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hID-PiGU1o
Same as above with extra footage :-
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oJNFWdmRQWek/