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But you can realize this while also acknowledging that the strategy to chosen to combat this by the “pro-democracy” forces in power - namely, a series of televised extravaganzas about the event meant to lead to a flood of votes for Democrats this November - doesn’t seriously address the problem. Factor in the right-wing domination of the Supreme Court and lower courts, and you’re looking at something close to a Trumpist checkmate.Īll of this is truly alarming. Capitalizing on the Democrats’ 2020 state-level collapse, Republicans have been maneuvering legal changes and appointees into place to make sure the next time they try it, they’ll have the necessary pieces ready to steal an election properly. Hard-right forces have learnt from their first go-around. Whatever the truth of that charge, one thing is clear: the events of that day and the machinations surrounding it showed how easy it is for anyone who’s bent on engineering a political crisis to simply gum up and subvert the United States’ arcane election processes. Parts of the Left have gotten flack for being somewhat cynical about January 6, both the event and the congressional hearings, and have been charged with not taking either seriously enough. And it doesn’t mean that it still couldn’t be - say, in two years’ time, when the country faces another presidential election, and the antidemocratic forces behind Trump have one dry run under their belt and years of prep time to do it properly. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been much worse than it was. We might sum it up this way: looking at the media sensationalism, misinformation, and political hyperbole, the reality of January 6 fell far short of what we’ve been told over and over again happened that day. On the other, Trump is a just one factor in the whole debacle, which was the sad end point of a series of festering problems with US politics and society that are still going unaddressed. On the one hand, Donald Trump’s actions, if not that of every Republican who colluded with him, are clearly criminal and worthy of prosecution. On the other, almost all of those who actually did that storming turned out to be unarmed, cable-news-obsessed dopes who didn’t know what to actually do once they - by blind chance - caught the proverbial car. On the one hand, the storming of the Capitol was an obviously alarming and dangerous event and could have ended in the murder of congresspeople and possibly worse. On the other hand, it was a slapdash, amateurish effort that failed, among other things, to get buy-in from most of the key officials needed to pull it off. On the one hand, it was an attempt to carry out something like the (briefly) successful right-wing coup in Bolivia. Analyzing January 6 can be tricky because it was several things at once.
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