Maybe it’s an ongoing and larger problem that a president who threatened for years that certain supporters would “get tough” directed an attempted coup that included members of law enforcement and the military and was aided by officers in charge of protecting Congress.
And maybe it deserves more attention that Secret Service had to shake up its ranks for fear that people loyal to Trump couldn’t be trusted protecting the next administration.
Or that foreign governments are seeing all of this as an inside job.
Or that foreign governments are seeing all of this as an inside job.
People are already minimizing what happened Wednesday and relying on classist lenses to diminish what was an attempted coup inspired by a president, involved military and law enforcement, the refusal of internal structures to do their jobs, and a general stand down from defense.
The point is this. We’re already attempting to pretend this coup wasn’t that big of a deal or was at least the last breath of this fascist moment. It’s not. At all. This is an ongoing, complicated, massive problem and we’d better handle it before it’s too late.
Congress needs to expedite Trump’s impeachment like it’s a bleeding crisis. Because it is. And America’s media and politicians need to get deadly serious about what this was, is, and just how extensive of a problem this is. We’re wasting precious, limited time.
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