Ever since Joe Biden’s inauguration, Democrats have been trying to get Americans to care about the unarmed, unhappy people who misbehaved at the Capitol on Jan. 6. A revolution it was not, an insurrection it was not, a demonstration and acting out of their displeasure and frustration it most surely was. And the DC police and prosecutor have spent the intervening time making sure the perps are sorry they did what they did … so be it.
Democrats have been entirely unsuccessful in getting Americans in general to care much about that event. This failure is driving many journalists round the twist. Why won’t we worry that our small d democracy is in mortal danger?
In part, of course, because we have a republic, not a democracy. But more fundamentally, because we will go to the polls in a couple of weeks and there prove that our representative government once again represents us, and hence is in no danger of doing otherwise. Of course that worries progressives who have never constituted a majority in this great nation.
Afterthought: In a nation where privately owned guns outnumber the citizenry, no revolution will happen without lots of gunfire. At the Capitol the only shot fired was a panicked Capitol cop fatally shooting an unarmed woman protestor.
