As the anniversary approaches, nonsense and danger are surging. Mon Jun 7, 2021 “I would like to see January 6th burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11 because it was that scale of a shock to the system.” That was
Washington Post columnist George Will in a May 23 appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” Will “seems to have taken complete leave of his senses,” wrote Conrad Black, who compared the two events. On January 6, 2021, a few hundred people entered the U.S. Capitol and caused “relatively minor damage.” Of the five casualties, only one, a Trump supporter, died of unnatural causes, “shot in the neck by a still unidentified Capitol Police officer.” And as the FBI verified, the intrusion was not coordinated with Trump, who called for a peaceful demonstration.
At a modest distance from the presidency of Donald Trump one thing has become entirely clear, the American conservative movement has irrevocably changed.