Just thinking about how the New York Times kept insisting Donald Trump was running a “law and order campaign” even as he was encouraging his supporters to become violent on his behalf.
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1346883077524639748
I’m *pretty skeptical* that if BLM activists spent a month publicly detailing their plans to go to DC to overturn an election by force they’d be allowed to get close enough to the Capitol to brawl with cops on the steps and force evacuations.
https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1346888341778821121
These aren’t “protests,” they are attacks.
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1346886585791504384
For years I’ve said that at some point between November 2020 and February 2020, the military would have a decision to make, and I hoped they’d make the right one. And people told me I was crazy.
https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080
It has been completely obvious for years that Trump would declare victory despite losing and that the supporters he has been urging to become violent on his behalf would do so. None of this is a surprise, and it is an eternal stain on every institution that failed to plan for it. 
Yes. And I was not alone. Did you use your television show to elevate people who understood what was happening?
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1346907786383421441
We have known this was coming for four years. Anyone who didn’t know for four years that this was coming should not be in position of influence.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1346912726430441472
It has been obvious since the moment Trump won in 2016 that this was coming. I said it in November 2016. Feckless elites refused to take the threat seriously; even elevated people who contributed to it.
https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/802988154915463168
Every Republican Senator who voted to acquit owns this, because it was obvious this would happen if Trump was allowed to remain in office. And because they fanned the flames every step of the way.
Again, this has always been obvious. What is the argument *against* what I laid out here in 2018, about Trump being a guilty man who would do anything to save himself?
*There isn’t one.*
Now: How many people told you this? How many high-paid journalists and pundits?
*There isn’t one.*
Now: How many people told you this? How many high-paid journalists and pundits?
This was not a sneak attack; we’ve known for years it was coming. We’ve known the *day* it was coming for weeks. But very, very few people of any real influence were willing to admit it, to prepare for it.
America is a failed state.
America is a failed state.
The thing that I’m sickest about is how clear it was for how long that today was coming, and yet … it came.
The Capitol fell to a few hundred cosplaying morons because America was too stupid and weak to prevent it even with advance knowledge.
The Capitol fell to a few hundred cosplaying morons because America was too stupid and weak to prevent it even with advance knowledge.
The New York Times pays this man to be wrong.
Nicole Wallace just said law enforcement’s failure to prepare for this was a “failure of imagination” like 9/11. But this is nothing like that. It wasn’t a failure of imagination; it was a failure to acknowledge and care about what was publicly known.
We didn’t need White House sources to know this years ago. Everyone who allowed him to remain in office owns this.
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1347065610556080130
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