You can cut the self-righteousness with a knife

I am sticking with my vow to stay off social media today, which is the 1-year anniversary of the riots at the U.S. Capitol. 

Today is a day for pearl-clutching progs and media types to make themselves the story, particularly how they feared for their lives over a "coordinated coup" orchestrated by Donald Trump supporters and how to this day they're still "triggered" by those events. 

While I will never excuse the actions of a few hundred idiots, we shouldn't be surprised at how we arrived at that moment on 1/6/2021. Erick Erickson explains. 

The truth is it was not an insurrection. It was definitely not a coup or attempted coup. But it was wrong, no one should pretend otherwise, and no one should trust any politician who does attempt to condone it instead of condemning it.

But there are other truths too. These truths the press and Democrats would prefer not to talk about. They’d prefer to scream “what-about-ism” or claim that bringing them up is to excuse or to mitigate January 6. Unfortunately for them, to truly understand January 6, we must understand other events and how those were handled.

In (2011), progressive activists stormed the State Capitol in Madison, WI. The Wisconsin State Journal reported it in eerily similar language to January 6. “Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors,” reported the paper. Progressives were trying to stop a vote making Wisconsin a right-to-work state, which would undermine labor union powers. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it an “impressive show of democracy” and said she stood with the protestors. The media was mostly matter of fact about it and by no means condemnatory.

In Texas, protestors stormed the State Capitol in Austin to stop Republicans from passing a pro-life measure. Most news anchors and reporters who covered it for the national press almost all explicitly excused the protestors and made Texas State Senator Wendy Davis a national figure and heroine for feminism. She rode the fame to several electoral defeats in Texas and talking head gigs on CNN and MSNBC.

In Washington, D.C. progressive activists stormed the United States Capitol to stop the vote on Brett Kavanaugh and to intimidate United States Senators. Major news outlets were almost all uniformly on the side of the protestors. Some reporters explicitly cheered on the protestors on their social media accounts. News networks like NBC all but colluded with Democrats to stop Kavanaugh.

This does not even include the coordinated and concerted Democratic efforts starting in 2000 to treat any election they lose as illegitimate with the media mostly amplifying those claims. Bush was “selected not elected” they said and Trump was fraudulently accused of being bought and paid for by the Russians. Stacey Abrams still denies her loss with press complicity, but Republicans are bullied and denounced for denying the legitimacy of 2020.

While the prog narrative these days is how it's so unpatriotic to question election results, that sentiment will be memory holed come November 2022 if indeed Democrats take a shellacking at the ballot box. And they will have their usual willing accomplices in the leftist lapdogs employed at CNN, MSNBC, etc. 

So while leftists will use this day to tout how courageous they are in talking about an event which triggers them so, they aren't going to get a lotta accolades from those who are concerned about their kids having to go back to distance learning or Americans enduring spikes in violent crime or the continued higher cost of living. And therein lies the endgame. The Dems have no real agenda for the 2022 election cycle, so they'll continue to shout "JANUARY 6TH!!!!" from the hills as an attempt to use as a cudgel against Republicans. Now if only the GOP would be smart enough to not take the bait.......

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