Thread by @ggreenwald

"Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time.....almost a quarter of the more than 230 defendants formally and publicly charged so far face only misdemeanors."

politico.com/news/2021/03/3…

More here from the @washingtonpost on how judges are growing increasingly angry with attempts by prosecutors to imprison the Jan 6 protesters prior to trial, since so many of them used no violence or force: just strolled in as part of a protest:

washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…

The media/Democratic narrative that this was a "coup" or "insurrection" or existential threat to the Republic was the same kind of moral panic hysteria that reigned during the first War on Terror. What happened to the "insurrection"? It just vanished.

greenwald.substack.com/p/as-the-insur…

My favorite part of the whole episode is how police and prosecutors became the grand heroes and protagonists of the liberal narrative about the Jan 6 riot just months after the summer protests: much like they made the CIA, FBI, NSA and neocons their heroes during the Trump years.

Here, from the Politico story on how many of the Jan. 6 protesters will face little or no jail time, is the rationale (nobody questions the propriety of harshly prosecuting those who used violence or force on that day):

https://twitter.com/jamietakes/status/1376895521487396866