Interesting how the shift in the 'pubs message is now "hey, lets get unified". And do that by trying, yet again, to elude consequences...and investigation, into what happened.
We have tried that path multiple times already.
It does not work.
Here is how it works...The way you and your team always put up a concrete wall when it comes to the relatively petty crimes some people do. They need to learn the lesson by suffering the consequences of their choices.
Consequences you absolve those who actually do deep and structural damage to the country from. At least until it cannot be ignored any longer, and you need a "sacrificial lamb".
Looking forward to seeing which 'lambs' will be offered up for this monumental moment.
Eventually
Eventually when the lesser 'lambs' are insufficient to the crime, sometimes, the responsibility finally lands on the leader, the head perp, the mob boss goes to prison after all. Or like Spiro Agnew, allowed to resign quietly... (one of the lucky ones).
Trump has the option to
Trump has the option to resign. The quick (and cowardly) way out. It won't heal the nation as well as a deep investigation would.
However, regardless of how these next few days play out, that investigation that has been called for before Jan6 still needs to happen.
So there
still is an opportunity for the national recognition of how thick the lies and deceptions has been this entire Trump time. This coupled with the clarifying sense of just how close we came to the edge...
This is what is needed to actually come to national unity. And healing.
Not the rat plea "don't do it to me", "who could have possibly have known", "I was just following orders", or whatever escape hatch is proposed to elude the klieg light.
One example of the hypocrisy of this plea can be seen in the example of the endless, fruitless, Bengazi
hearings the 'Pub's put Hillary through. Over and over trying to find something, anything to pin on her. And when there was nothing, just do anything to create as much damage to her personally. Eventually harm & impede her campaign.
This was a stated goal.
No healing/unity
intended, or got.
Now here we have one of the most serious, momentuous events in our history, certain recent history. A break out of the underlying cancer that has been Trump and the vitriol, and fictions, he has inculcated into his believers..
Now you want to give a pass?
It is called 'consequences of your actions'. Something most people learn as a child.
The unification comes as we all confront our complicity in what has happened, what led up to it, what enabled it, and the shock of seeing it worked out.
Not trying to elude responsibility.
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When (if) the full story of Jan6 ever comes out I predict it will have multiple levels of intention and complicity.
Broadly
1/The "base" level of the mob reacting out of what they believe & has been taught & insinuated into them for years.
I think this chaos is the cover for
other levels that seem to have a much more clear, "calm" mission.
These are the people who are now utterly confused that what they were told turns out to not be true.
These people being disbarred from flying, or taken into custody, thinking they were just returning home, are
bearing the brunt of the response by the law enforcement system. They are the easiest to see, find, and catch.
They are the pawns. They are the Orcs in the Trumpian system...expendable. Useful. Necessary. But Expendable as the strategy & tactics require.
@tommy_pane@kenobrea@Laces20288055@bigrigsusa@tedlieu@GOP 2/ For years I have been noticing this propensity towards violence implicit in the Trump/ism.
What happened Jan6 was just the first major breaking out of this underlying principle.
Whether you accept the assessment, the fact is violence was unleashed.
@tommy_pane@CrisesMimetic@cdsmith80@DominicNeiman@MarlaYouTourist@mtaibbi It is foolish to engage you any more.. We are not in agreement at the foundational levels. Not about liberty.
But the fact, now fully exposed, that you are willing, happy even, to engage violence to gain your "liberty".
You, along w Trump, the leader, and the tribe the
@tommy_pane@CrisesMimetic@cdsmith80@DominicNeiman@MarlaYouTourist@mtaibbi 2/ doers, you are willing to breach the fundamental principle of 'The rule of law', and 'No one is above the law'.
You will cite revolutions of the past, maybe even the American Rev.
And I will laugh that you would equate what is happening now with then.
@tommy_pane@CrisesMimetic@cdsmith80@DominicNeiman@MarlaYouTourist@mtaibbi 3/ The model before us now, and what has always been the underlying issue w Trump, and Trumpism, is not the Am Rev which brought us the ability to even think about such things as Free Speech et al.
But 1930's Germany, and the #Brownshirts and the devotion to the goal of getting
@SamHarrisOrg An entry into the debate of 'free will' and how people develop.
I wonder sometimes if what you see as unconditional outcomes is due in some large part to the underlying conditioning that conscribes one's self.
This image struck me along those lines.
I gather you see this as just another effect in the universal cosmic Cause... An inevitable happening that must be seen as an effect, rather than a 'cause' of its own?
Is every analysis of the context and conditioning of people subject to the trump card of 'yep, that is how it must be given the massive totality of all the forces leading to this moment'.
@TimothyDSnyder Needs to be on every major media explaining what has happened, how it has been being set up for years, the patterns of Authoritarian take over..
And the fact that we are not yet done with this.
It is still hot. Trump remains a force - another pattern.
Looking back, not even 100 years ago, to the last major authoritarian assault. There are patterns. We are in the middle of our version, so we do not have a clear idea if we are at the beginning, the Putsch, or the end, the Bunker.
There are pieces of both.
It depends, largely
on whether we are capable of hearing the clear statements and assessments of our historians like Snyder and Heather Cox. And the journalists, writers, like @anneapplebaum who see things from a larger contextual perspective.