Mar 1, 2021
In the name of never letting a crisis go to waste, the Democrats used the excuse of the Jan. 6 Capitol event to ring Washington with barbed wire and military personnel during the inauguration. And as soon as that unjustified action could no longer be excused, the further excuse of the Fake Impeachment Trial Take 2 was invoked to continue the claim of Washington under siege. It’s true that Washington is under siege. But whereas a siege normally takes place from outside the wire, in this case it’s taking place inside the wire.
Of course, the besieged appearance of Washington can be apologetically attributed to contemporary events — to COVID or to the planned assault on Congress which therefore couldn’t be incited by a peaceful speech. But neither event merits a military lock down of the Capitol, which is now a fact. And so what matters now is the mindset of what these militarized moves mean. Trump calls for a peaceful march. And the Democrats call him an insurrectionist despot and wire Washington to look like the seat of government of an insurrectionist despot. And yet Trump the supposed despot isn’t there. But the Democrats are.