Five months later, I am still angry over Trump’s post-inaugural pardoning of the convicted January 6th 2021 insurrectionists.
The people who desecrated Our Capitol on January 6th, 2021 claimed they had the right to behave as they did because it is their Capitol. To be clear and unambiguous, it is not their Capitol. It belongs to all Americans. They had no right to storm the Capitol in their deluded, self-righteous hunt for Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers to punish them for their lack of support for President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the allegedly stolen 2020 presidential election.
The live video coverage and after-action reporting confirmed that the acts committed by Trump’s supporters on January 6th, 2021 at the US Capitol Building were acts of insurrection.
These insurrectionists are not going away. And, We are not going away. The deluded, false narrative of a stolen 2020 presidential election has been and could be further debunked, but that won’t change their minds.
The January 6th insurrectionists exhibited arrogance, ignorance and violence in abundance. As the investigative facts were revealed, it appears many in this mob are, otherwise, typical Americans, not Hillary’s “deplorables”. They have families and jobs. They run and own companies. Many are US military veterans. Most, I believe would argue that they are the “true patriots”.
They are not!
They violated the rule of law upon which Our country was founded and by which the rest of Us abide. Their acts cannot be tolerated or excused. They should have all been held fully accountable and faced the full consequences of their acts — not pardoned by Donald J. Trump.
Justifying the acts committed by the 6th’s insurrectionists by comparing them to the looting of stores, destruction of cars, and breaking of glass windows by protestors during past civil disturbances related to societal issues, like Black Lives Matter, is a false equivalency. This was an attack on the most visible symbol of the American democratic republic and its duly elected government — The United States Capitol.