Take in for a moment the likelihood that the leadership of the U.S. military held back the National Guard from protecting congress, for fear the then-president would switch their mission to clearing the Capitol to halt the certification of Biden’s election; i.e., a military coup.
Meanwhile Republicans tried to put on the January 6 investigating committee, someone everyone paying attention knew would ultimately be called before the committee: Rep Jim Jordan. Kevin tried to make him ranking member! They’re openly obstructing the investigation.
Trump tried to corrupt the defense department, the justice department, the congress, the vice president, state elections boards, governors and the courts, all in a desperate bid to stay in power. He launched a literal coup attempt. In plain sight. In America.
And not one senior leader of that conspiracy has faced a single legal consequence. Not one. Meanwhile Republicans are LITERALLY shutting down the places where Black people vote and trying to kill vote by mail to leave as the only option spending hours in long lines with no water.
They’re preparing to deploy intimidation forces to nonwhite precincts to try and scare any voter away who might choose Democrats. And they’re attempting to squeeze every option for voting out of existence except those used by white and especially white rural voters.
And if that doesn’t work, they’re all but bragging that they’ll just pull another violent coup. And this time they’d probably succeed.
Here is the @just_security article about the Pentagon’s reluctance to send in the Guard on January 6th. justsecurity.org/79623/crisis-o…
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