Thread by @donmoyn

New, from me: there is a concerted effort to deny and obscure the meaning of January 6th. In this piece, I examine the different flavors of January 6th revisionism and explain why it matters. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…

January 6th revisionist flavor #1. Tone policing: it wasn’t an “insurrection” or a coup, or a mob, or terrorists, or a riot etc…

January 6th revisionist flavor #2.

Whataboutism: What about Dick Cheney—he was a bad guy and is commerating January 6th? Seems bad. What about George Floyd protests? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…

January 6th revisionist flavor #3: Leftists protest all the time, what’s the big deal? Why should we focus on one particular protest at the Capitol? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…

January 6th revisionist flavor #4: Just calm down, you are being hysterical (and its actually the Dems who are rigging elections)

January 6th revisionist flavor #5:
It was an inside job! A false flag! What are you hiding?

January 6th revisionist flavor #6:
The true victims are the protestors. We should support them against a totalitarian state.

January 6th revisionist flavor #7: Attempts to overthrow elections should not be politicized. Please stop talking about them in divisive terms! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…

January 6th revisionist flavor #8: Anti-elitism.
The herrenvolk don’t care about this despite the best efforts of DC and media elites. (Bonus point if you are a Governor or Senator or media elite saying this)

Any major political event will be contested and subject to re-evaluation. But the tell among the January 6th revisionists is an unwillingness to acknowledge the basic facts of what happened and its implications for American democracy.

The January 6th revisionism was predictable and predicted. Here is Jake Tapper on January 6th itself saying the politicians who were involved would try to whitewash what happened. But the revisionism is much broader than those few, incorporating most of the right-wing media.

We have learned a lot since Jan 6th. To the extent that a revisionist perspective is needed it is that we saw it too narrowly at the time. The images of rioting and looting helped us miss the greater dangers were happening behind the scenes and which are driving current policy.

I'm not saying that people have to treat January 6th as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. You merely need to believe that US political elites should take it as seriously as they did Benghazi. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/little-big-l…