The "Green Bay Sweep"--One Year Later

[Dill]

(01-06-2022, 03:42 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/anniversary-of-a-disgrace/#slide-1

This pretty well sums it up for me.

Thanks for posting that, Mason. I think it is the best representation of what might be called the position of “McConnel Republicans,” who grant Trump did something bad but consider hearings to investigate the Capitol breach nothing more than “political opportunism.”
 
The article offers a blizzard of “whattabouts”: a Harvard professor bombed the Capitol in 1915 and shot J.P. Morgan, a Puerto Rican nationalist shot 5 Congressmen in 1954, in the 80s leftists set off bombs in the capitol and Pentagon,  “left-wing mobs” overran the Wisconsin state capitol in 2011,  chased Republican senators down Capitol hallways during the Kavanaugh hearings, supermajorities of Dem voters believed Russians hacked/stole the 2016 election. And don’t forget 9/11 and the shooting of Steve Scalise, not to mention the Dems who “pandered” to the riots of 2020 following the death of George Floyd.  Apparently we’ve “seen worse” and “both sides do it”; though it is admitted Trump went farther than Dems who contested the 2000 and 2004 elections.

As for 1/6, “the Republicans in Congress who shamefully supported the objections to Biden’s election mostly did so in the same fashion as the Democrats who objected to prior presidential elections — secure in the knowledge that they were participating in a cynical stunt and would be saved from the consequences of their actions by others.”

So the conclusion is—“Many of the January 6 opportunists on the left want to respond by enacting centralizing changes to the American system. But in January 2022, as in January 2021, we should mistrust anyone who says we won’t have a country if we let the system work as it always has. America works, and its system should not be burned down in the name of saving it.”  Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

But there is much missing from this assessment, starting with the Green Bay Sweep attempted before the election, secretly coordinating MAGA operatives in many states to send false Electoral certifications to Congress and culminating in the rally which launched the assault on Congress. Isn’t conspiring/attempting to overturn an election illegal? The failure to coerce Pence to invalidate certification has since led to an ongoing coup which continues after the election. Are we “let[ing] the system work as it always has” if we look the other way?