bannon, and the alternative right-wing equals fear. stirring of the masses with lies in conspiracies. that s all saying, of journalism is the first draft of history if a journalism is, what is this right-wing version of journalism on one six the first draft of? how much of a danger to our democracy and our shared reality does right-wing media play, right now, in american politics? so, it s the first draft of the new laws cause. it s an alternative history of january 6th the, process of rewriting it was already before the day. if you listen to stephen s podcast, when you hear is that the real crime against democracy didn t happen on january six, that happened on november 3rd, when the election was stolen. that mythology has become so important to people on the right. it has become a methodology that republicans have embraced. a recent poll show that 52% of a propublica and say that would happen on january 6th was a
dagger at the throat of democracy. i think we can agree, congressman, that was a very strong speech. fighting words, even. where is that fight been for the past year? is this going to be a new and improved joe biden, for 2022, taking the fight to trump, in the gop, or is him just getting emotional? we need more of that? yes, that s how we want him to. lead for the first year, i think he cautiously tried to bring the country together. not wanting to talk too much about the former president, but the republicans are interested in doing that. the ramping up their violent rhetoric. it reminded me of one of my favorite movies going up, bad boys, with will smith martin lawrence. martin lawrence was a very cautious driver, but in the final scene of the movie, more lawrence escapes after driving pretty fast and pretty wildly. will smith looks at him and says, that s how i want you to drive.
to vote against the certification of the vote. joined by 139 of the gop colleagues in the house. even as the blood was still wet, in the hallways of the capital, that s what they did. in the days and months since that attack on congress, we have seen republicans, both politicians and voters, get even more radicalized. we ve seen the big lie get even more entrenched. we ve seen voting rights hammered, at the state level. we are, as i ve said many times before on the show, in the midst of a rolling insurrection. look, i m not an american by birth, i m an american by choice, i swore my oath of allegiance to this country. becoming a proud citizen less than three months before those traders and fascist wearing nazi t-shirts and carrying confederate flags tried to murder american democracy. i chose to be here, because i value freedom. but the freedom to choose your own
democracy or our constitution. he can t accept that he lost. so at this moment, we must decide, what kind of nation are we going to be? will we be a nation that accepts political violence as the norm? are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan to overturn the legally expressed will of the people? will we be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth, or under the shadow of lies? we cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. the way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it. strong, necessary words from the president of the united states today. but in order to understand what s at stake going forward, we do need to be clear eyed about what happened one year ago, that they. that crowd attacking congress was being for the blood of lawmakers. california democrat and p2
with the false claim of the 2020 election. putting in place mechanisms so that would be tried and failed to do in 2020, he would have a better chance of being able to do in 2024. yes, indeed. they have certainly fill those holes in their shoddy plan. jelani, it was an attack on democracy. we keep saying that. it was. the president said so today. in many ways, it was also an old-fashioned white riot, was it not? the amount of confederate imagery that was president in the pro trump crowd. including the rebel battle flag no one insurrectionist brought into the capitol that day. when we saw when we say, after looking at these pictures, we say this was unprecedented. actually, it was following a lot of american presidents, was it not? absolutely. whenever somebody says unprecedented, that means you have an exam in the history. when we are talking about looking at this, the first