Jan. 10, 2021 4:31 pm ET
Hereâs my prediction: On Jan. 20, the No. 1 video on YouTube will be âDing Dong the Witch Is Deadâ from âThe Wizard of Oz.â Go ahead, play the song in your head. Iâll wait.
This hope for mass emotional relief was best summed up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who, according to Politico, told her leadership team, âIâm counting down the hours âtil heâs gone. . . . I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands and his feet.â I guess tearing up the State of the Union speech wasnât therapeutic enough. Nor is there any peace for the mouth breathers who stormed the Capitol and sat feet-up on her desk. Or the quixotic and psychotic contesting and protesting of the 2020 electionâor 2016, or 2000 for that matter.
Jan. 10, 2021 1:41 pm ET
On Wednesday afternoon I checked in with a Latin American friend to get his thoughts about the chaos on Capitol Hill. “It looks like home,” he quipped.
It was not a unique reflection. By evening a popular observation making the rounds was that the invasion of Congress was the stuff of banana republics. The bedlam also evoked memories of what happened in many U.S. cities over the summer when the Black Lives Matter marches turned violent.
There was a big difference between Wednesday and the American summer of terror. During the latter it was merely a presidential