(W)hile I think (Jan. 6, 2021) was a no-good, terrible, bad day, the American media wants you to believe that it was the absolute worst day ever. Why is this?
To understand what's going on here, you need to understand a report from the website Morning Consult that does a lot of data-driven analysis. One of the things that they say is the views of the Republican Party are back to normal. People do not hold the Republican Party in contempt for January 6th. In fact, their views of Donald Trump have rebounded as their views of Joe Biden have gone down. Now, this is everything to do with Joe Biden being president, not Donald Trump. But at the same time, Republicans are no longer associated per se with January 6th. The public does not hold it against Republicans.
You will recall that James Carville was on television and said that the Democrats needed to do their best to tie Republicans to January 6th in the same way Republicans have tied Democrats to the riots across the country and that their failure to do so would mean doom in 2022. As perception of the Republican Party has rebounded, the bottom line is the media has to go into double hysterics over January 6th because they've got to convince the American public that they cannot restore Republicans to power. The media is doing this on behalf of the Democratic Party.
Hell, CNN is devoting an entire primetime special to the events of 1/6/2021. Given the network's cratering numbers since Trump left office, one would understand airing this broadcast in an effort to resurrect sagging ratings for a night. However, it'll have little impact for CNN long term and it sure as heck won't have any bearing on the 2022 midterm elections.
With all that said, I am staying completely off of social media for all of Thursday. While I have no issue acknowledging that the perpetrators of the Capitol riot need to face consequences, anything less than saying said incident was on par or worse than the events of 9/11/2001 is (according to the Twitterverse) tantamount to treason.
So enjoy your day of self-righteous indignation, progs. Come Friday morning you'll still have the trough-like stink of the Biden administration emanating from your beings.
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