Today is an anniversary, of sorts, and the Democrats will not let us move on without commemorating it. I don’t obsess about it here at COTTonLINE, but it is perhaps worth restating the conclusions I have drawn about the Capitol riot.
In a nation where privately owned firearms are so prevalent that they may outnumber our population, a serious insurrection would have featured lots of gunfire. As far as I am able to determine, the only shots one year ago at the Capitol were fired by the defending Capitol police, killing unarmed Ashli Babbitt.
Therefore what occurred was not a serious attempt to overthrow the government. It was a group of angry, rowdy people misbehaving, making their anger known in unlawful ways. It is something that occurs from time to time in this country, and we have laws and penalties to deal with it.
The Capitol Police were unaccustomed to this level of kinetic discontent - psychologically unprepared - and it showed in their actions. Unlike big city/urban law enforcement, most of their activities most of the time are not unlike those of building security rent-a-cops, more for display than for action.
It suits Democrats’ motives to make a big deal out of remembering the Jan. 6 riot, so take their “big deal” for what it’s worth - a political act by largely corrupt people. It likewise suits Democrats’ motives not to make a big deal out of BLM/Antifa riots which were far more violent and destructive. Gotta love Democrat hypocrisy.
Afterthought: Making sure an election held in unusual times runs clean is something you do before and while the ballots are cast, not afterwards. Much of President Trump’s post-November, 2020, behavior hasn’t been classy.
Trump bears some indirect responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot. He took a successful presidency and besmirched it while a lame duck. If he’s the party nominee in 2024 I’ll support him; however I’d prefer someone with the same program but without the “I wuz robbed” baggage, someone like FL Gov. Ron DeSantis.
