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Good. Hope he’s suffering.
He was the primary person who incited the insurrection on the day of January 6. He told a mob of angry Trump supporters that they had to fight or they wouldn't have a country anymore.
But he's gotten no real punishment for his actual crimes. His suffering now is of the sort that could happen to anybody, even if they lived the most virtuous life.
I know he'll never face actual justice, but I'm personally not happy with this as a substitute.
January 6th was the only principled thing MAGA ever did.
Literally the only time they appeared to genuinely believe their own bullshit. Of course, they ran away with their tails between their legs as soon as shit got real…
But I’m sick of hearing American liberals clutch their pearls about how terrible it is to do a January 6th. Doing a January 6th isn’t immoral- doing it FOR THE REASONS IT WAS DONE is immoral. And you’re going to have to do a lot worse than a January 6th if you want any hope at all of getting your country back.
The only place I disagree with you is the idea that MAGA can be described as having this singular united motive at the time.
You have the grifters at the top who know it's bullshit, but who have found a huge pool of the world's easiest marks. You have a lot of genuine believers. You have a lot of people who don't have any beliefs but who simply do as they're told. You have a lot of people who are just trying to fit in. And you have a bunch of little Nazi wannabes who know everybody else is being grifted, but who either simply like hurting other groups of people, or they believe that they'll eventually become the grifters.
With MAGA, like with most political groups, if you want a crowd of specific types, you just have to pick who is in the crowd.
Well yeah, this is what accounts for them scattering like cowards as soon as that garbage woman took a very entertaining bullet to the neck.