“Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.”
That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last.
On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of that awful day,” the “once-unthinkable trauma.”
Still, a year later, said the Times, “the Republic faces an existential threat,” as the “Capitol riot … continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.”
“We should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. … (our) democracy … is in grave danger.”
What the Times is saying is that the electoral reforms being enacted democratically in red states — requiring voter IDs, for example, and subject to judicial review — are a Republican continuation of the Capitol riot.
Why cannot our liberal media let it go? Why does the distortion and hysteria about Jan. 6 seem to grow with each retelling?
Now, undeniably, as I wrote in a column the next morning, Jan. 6 was “The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists.”
“The worst of the day’s events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the Mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.
“Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed …
“What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic.” I added, “And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency.”
That last line understated what an obsession Jan. 6 has become for the nation’s establishment and media elite.
The left cannot let go of Jan. 6. Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.
Though Trump was exonerated by the Senate of the impeachment charge brought by Nancy Pelosi’s House, the House select committee wants to try Trump again and again in the court of public opinion and wants President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to find some crime with which to charge and convict him.
There are other reasons the left cannot let go of Jan. 6.
Democrats have no other issue on which to run this November.
The Biden presidency has produced an uninterrupted string of disasters: the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the Texas border crisis, inflation, an explosion of gun violence and murders setting records in Democrat-run cities, failure to produce an adequate federal response to the delta and omicron waves of COVID-19.
Again, Jan. 6 was a riot, involving assaults on Washington and Capitol cops and the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.
But was Jan. 6 really the planned coup, the terrorism, the sedition, the armed insurrection, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government?
Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour’s time and major wars followed — as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?
If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?
Thus far, all the charges prosecuted and punished are consistent with a riot, which is what Jan. 6 was. Comparisons of this three-hour mob action to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are almost sacrilegious.
Was that QAnon shaman occupying the chair in the Senate chamber really the moral equivalent of Mohamed Atta ramming an airliner into the World Trade Center or Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plotting the Dec. 7 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
Another reason for the left to paint up the horror of that day is that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 were not the radical left who battled cops and burned and looted Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee and scores of other cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.
They were the “deplorables” of Trump, the populists of the American right, against whom any slander is justified.
Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left’s belief in American democracy?
What does that tell us about the left’s trust in the people?
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I wish those of us who REALLY appreciate our 2 party system would begin to call the other Party by a name that fits it. There is NO Democatic party anymore, AMEN!! This group of power mongers need to be called what they are either greedy or underhanded trying to destroy oour individual freedoms. It really is as simple as that. Otherwise, they would welcome good discussion and open approaches to ID voting. Also, the Republican ‘ins’ are not doing this Nation a service either by not have the guts to stand up to them. Get the younger people in who know our history and let’s begin again. Prove who you are and VOTE FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
I have been doing this job for like a few weeks and KJH my last weekly payment was exactly
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Common sense is cancelled.
The left is a terrorist organization.
Democrats are so old they have lost perspective.
They stay in congress until they dry up and fly away in the wind.
If they knew how old and stupid they look and act they certainly would leave and spend a few months with their families.
We now need a leader more than ever before, and that leader is president Trump.
All the nonsense is not convincing any American with 1/2 brain.
Absolutely right. Trump provided crucial leadership that benefited this country. The democratic complaints now are solely on stopping Trump from running again while maintaining democratic control of elections, as evidenced in the last election with the “irregularities” that resulted in the election of a senile old man as president, whose actions are dictated by his “handlers” in order to perpetuate democratic control by enabling illegal aliens to vote in our elections.
The writer hits things on the head, those in the Democratic Party and their supporters do think that the rest of America are “Trumps Deplorables ” as they are still crying foul about the defeat of Hillary.( As has been seen more and more of from the Wicked Witch herself ) I’m waiting for Pelosi and Schiff for brains to try to pass a law to keep Trump or anyone that thinks like a free American from ever running for office . ” Trumps Law ” will make it a first degree Felony to try to run for President , unless they have held public office for a min of 10 years, they must be a member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Nancy Pelosi fan club. Between her loyal followers in the House and The RHINOS she has under her control. All she’ll need to do is Treaten to show everyone her underware, of which then everyone gets sick and they ( The Democrats ) win by default
The left needs to be destroyed at all costs
Most definitely, we must vote every Democrat and RINO out of office. Only then can we get America moving in the correct direction to save this country.
There’s only one reason Democrats want to push there agendas for voting like ballot harvesting and no ID they getting away with cheating and they want to keep doing it.
Everyone with half a brain knows that Jan. 6 was a staged event by the left. Some on the right got caught up in the madness. But it was only a riot. Not like the riots of 2020. The left doesn’t want Trump to run again. So make it more then it was.
“Everyone with half a brain” must be Damnocrats.
The real reason the leftist democrats can not let this to is that they have invested too much in creating this nonsense.
LISTEN UP….GOD is ANGRY that PREZ TRUMP Did NOT get a FAIR ELECTION. GOD will get REVENGE. ALL Shall SEE the POWER of GOD in ALL its GLORY. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
Considering the current State of the Country under the Democrats’ control, the reason why they can’t let go of Jan. 6, and must continually overhype it, is that it simply is all they have. Politically, they are dead in the water, and have no paddle.
I had once leaned toward referring to an entity I called “What is left of the Democrat Party” I don’t do that any more.
There is nothing to the Left of that mob.
The whole country had its fingers crossed that day, and was hoping to keep biden from being nominated for the position of the President.
I don’t support violence, but it’s the only thing the democrats understand.
WHAT HAPPENED THE DAY PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SET TO BE PRESIDENT????
Have the democratic party compared that day to Jan/6? NOOOO THEY HAVN’t .
Instead they compared it to 9/11..(god rest the souls lost that day)
I say and will always say, the Democrat party has been bought out and owned by the Communist party of China and Russia and it has never been shown as much as what KING BIDEN or should I say Comrade Biden has shown in his first year of his Dictatorship.
Here is another attempt by a hack about Jan 6. Hey Pat boy, where is the reporting that the police let the people in, hell directed them. Tell me how you can support a coward, chicken shit cop who shot a woman in the back and UNARMED woman who was going to kill haow many of these corrupt political pieces of shit. These corrupt politicians were running and hiding. What cowards but theyse corrupt politticians do need to be hung and maybe you with them for spreading such lies, you know tried and hung. That building is NOTHING. The politicians in ti, that should be upholding their oaths which prety much the most both parties) are not and media liars like you help keep people seperated because of your lies. I love how you idiots keep giving up on the truth, well more probably not giving up but are simply paid off. You sell your sould for pennies and when the super rich get there control I will see you kicked to the curb the minute your useless to them. You seem to be usless to us now. Go hang with your coward cop tha shot that unarmed woman in the back and see how muchhe protects you ass because the first sign, even if that sign is false, that piece of shit will be running behind mommy peeing in his pants and crying.
Oh and mmaybe Pat boy should stay up on the news and stop watching CNN and see the number of innacuraccies (ok cheating) in that presidential election. People like you disgust me.
The New Ork Times is the biggest threat to this country like democrats and Biden. Republicans can help this courtryrun when we takeover. Good riddance NYT
The cackling witch Kamela needs to go
Jan. 6 was no insurrection. It was a protest which is within the confines of the Constitution. The democrats have nothing else they can complain over. Biden is doing a crummy job of running this country. Amazingly, the democrats approved of RIOTS in various cities and states during the same period. Note that many of them voiced approval of those riots and the destruction they caused. Some even provided bail money to get the rioters out of jail.
The fascist globalist Democrats can’t let Jan 6th go because that’s all they have to lull voters into their nonsense. Vote Republican and stay free.
Great read. and it’s all the truth. President Trump did nothing wrong. He said “go peacefully and let your voices be heard”. What about that guy that was telling people for months to get to the Capitol and enter any way you can. Why is he not being prosecuted? The whole thing stinks.
This writer nailed it!
That pretty much says what’s important.
Thank you, Greg, for putting that out there. Mr. Cheney and his daughter truly represent the tenets of true Republican conservatism, not the ignorant goofballs that are today’s “Conservative” Republicans. The Rand Pauls, the Kevin McCarthys, and especially, the Ron Johnsons, Marjorie T. Greene, Hawleys, Gaetz, Jordan, Gosar, they are the RINO voices of today’s fascism, lies, fake news and represent EVERYTHING that true Republicans deplore.
Thanks, Ted. I had plenty more to say, but I got rid of it and just let the Cheneys speak. That was more powerful than anything I could say.
This article has so many problems. It’s a sad chapter in our history when an outgoing president encourages a mob to overturn the will of the people and then his supporters try to pretend it didn’t happen. Republicans need to stand up and challenge the lies.
You gotta’ wonder who the NYT is targeting. The only blood spilled was that of an innocent girl shot by an idiot on the capitol police force when she was just standing by minding her own business. The only unruliness was propagated by left wing operatives and FBI plants who intended to stir up a stink so they could blame it on Trump. Who is their audience that would believe their propaganda? The left is simply using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as their play book. Everybody with a brain knows that.
I am amazed at the significant piece of information that Pat Buchanan left out completely in his very biased article about the ‘Left’ not being able to let go of January 6th. His omission is deplorable in the eyes of this forever, longtime Republican. Clearly, the left along with many, many moderate Reps like me who voted for Biden because of the twisted legacy Trump was leaving our country, will also NOT let go of January 6th because of one BIG reason: Trump is NOT letting go of his sick, totally false narrative titled “Stolen Election”. To this day, one year later, he is sill crying about it and CONSTANTLY, daily spewing out his fake news with totally unsubstantiated claims about the election being stolen from him. WE ALL KNOW THOSE ARE BIG, FAT LIES. Those daily lies from Trump should be a clear sign to all those that support him and to all Repubicans, in general, that the man is completely out of control and has lost his marbles. You all need to face it, it is Trump that is keeping January 6th alive and will continue to do so until he shuts his filthy, lying, disgusting mouth about the election being stolen, which, by the way is also keeping our country fiercly divided. Buchanan, don’t go blaming the Left or the Dems for keeping January 6th alive. Instead, start looking at Trump, the RINO Congressmen and Conresswomen and the conservative confederate news outlets like AAN and OAN and Tucker Carlson, because that’s who’s really keeping January 6th alive and breathing daily life into it.
The Socialist-Collectivists only want complete control, they dont believe in Democracy or real democratic principles. They only follow Marx and Alinsky.
Why cant Left media do this: J6, 1-6 The Play about 1-6
Yes Broadway Play & act for Las Vegas???
AND WE KNOW THE ANTIFAN, aside from operative Feds, THAT WAS COINED THE PIPE BOMBER AND HIS LIST OF THINGS TO…. do! NAIL FILLED PIPE BOMBS, LIST of things to do, ANTIFA ATTIRE AND LOGOS IN BACK PACK, UMBRELLA TO SHIELD FROM TEAR AND PEPPER SPRAY.
TO NOTE: MOST OF THOSE CLIMBING WALLS WERE OPERATIVES TO THE FED!! MOST OLD CONSERVATIVES WOULD NOT NOR EVEN CAPABLE OF SUCH TASK!!
Here’s another point of view. Democrats are doing their best to demean and degrade anything and anybody who is conservative, Christian or anybody who supports Trump who is a nationalist, and patriot. They have to justify themselves by convincing Americans that America is a horrible place and they must clean it up. They are doing the bidding of China because China wants us gone. They don’t want to compete with us. If they can arrange it so Democrats wind up with permanent power (through abolishing the filibuster, controlling the voting system, etc), then China will have permanent power over the United States through the Democrat Socialists. Got it?