With or without him
Politicians who say the violent insurrection of January 6 “isn’t us” would like us to pretend we hear and see no evil. Well, cat’s out of that bag. We all saw and heard the evil, and it is us.
I’ve spent more time on Twitter in the past nine days than I have in the past seven years. So much for a news-dry January. Am I still in shock from the events of January 6? It appears so. Why? I shouldn’t have been shocked, or surprised, or startled or stunned or staggered or stupefied. No one should have been, yet the violence we all witnessed was still, to most of us, totally unthinkable. If we don’t know our history, most of us do have a passing familiarity with Trump’s speeches and tweets over the years. There were some logical conclusions we might have drawn. Such as, he was never going to go quietly.