They fully intend to rebuild their hoaxes

AJ+ tweeted a comparison of two events in Washington:

DC mob attack, 1/6/21: Broke into Capitol Offices vandalized National Guard: about 340 Arrests that day: 82 DC anti-racism protest, 6/1/20: 1 block away from White House No attempt to breach building National Guard: about 5,000 Arrests that day: 289

Meteor Blades, in his night owl column for Daily Kos, quoted a bit from Emmanuel Felton at Buzzfeed News in an article about two black cops whose job was to protect the Capitol. The officers felt they had not been properly prepared for the militia – lots of former military guys – they were up against.

In the seven years since Black Lives Matter has become a rallying cry, the image of a white cop, deciding how and when to enforce law and order, has become ubiquitous. On Wednesday, Americans saw something different, as Black officers tried to do the same, as they attempted to protect the very heart of American democracy. And instead of being honored by the supporters of a man who likes to call himself the “law and order” president, Black Capitol officers found themselves under attack. “I got called a nigger 15 times today,” the veteran officer shouted in the rotunda to no one in particular. “Trump did this and we got all of these fucking people in our department that voted for him. How the fuck can you support him?” “I cried for about 15 minutes and I just let it out.”

During the fall campaign Project Lincoln produced a series of commercials that were highly critical of the nasty guy. Some progressives felt that yeah, the commercials were great, but the people making them were still Republicans and would be making the usual Republican claims and excuses once the nasty guy was out of office. So here’s something Project Lincoln should be good at and something Democrats wouldn’t be able to do. Joan McCarter of Kos reported they are Republicans talking to Republicans about the fascists in their midst. They will be targeting corporations who give donations to the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn election results. At the top of the targets are Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. SemDem of the Kos community wrote that on the day of the attack the nasty guy tweeted that he “loves” the attackers and considers them “special.” A day later, when the nasty guy’s own skin was on the line his tone changed to, “they must be made to pay.” So forget the pardon. The crimes they face are seditious conspiracy, rebellion and insurrection, damage to federal property, use of explosives, and crossing state lines to commit crimes. And much of the evidence is posted on social media. Some of them are trying to apologize or concoct an alibi (“I was walking around looking for a bathroom” said a guy who put a note on Nancy Pelosi’s desk). And some of them are losing their jobs or having their business boycotted. The nasty guy minions installed at the Pentagon who made sure reinforcements were delayed have issued a document trying to absolve themselves of blame. Besides, the crowd was only engaging in (their words) First Amendment Protests. Mark Sumner of Kos isn’t buying their heavily slanted document. Ashton Lattimore of Kos Prism says in addition to the Capitol attack, a coup attempt by the nasty guy, it is also a predictable white backlash. In this case a backlash against the voting power of black people in Georgia who forced two white people into a runoff election and the election of a woman as VP who is also black and South Asian. Wrote Lattimore:

So, what now? Historically, too often the U.S. government response to violent white backlash has been reconciliation and retreat: Don’t punish the Confederate rebels too much, and abandon Reconstruction; keep welcoming segregationists into polite society and public life and avoid spooking them by shunning as “leftist” any public policy that would benefit Black and brown people. That absence of consequences continues to the present day. … Dressed up as a noble desire to move forward and forgive, these constant failures to hold lawless white supremacists accountable only leave BIPOC unprotected and send the message that perpetually escalating attacks on multiracial democracy have no consequences. While white supremacist backlash to growing Black and brown political power may not be wholly preventable, the way the nation chooses to respond to that backlash can neutralize its ability to harm BIPOC as we continue to rightfully and forcefully assert our full personhood in this country. Those in power have a responsibility to act with that aim in mind.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was a guest on ABC’s This Week with host George Stephanopoulos to spell out why impeachment must go forward. Marissa Higgins of Kos provided video clops. Some of what AOC said:

Our main priority is to ensure the removal of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Every minute and every day that he is in office represents a clear and present danger not just to the United States Congress but to the country. But in addition to removal, we’re also talking about completely barring the president—or rather, Donald Trump—from running for office ever again. And in addition to that, the potential ability to prevent pardoning himself from those charges that he was impeached for.

AOC also said the safety and security of the country takes precedence over confirmations of Biden’s cabinet. She also had an answer to say impeachment would be “inflamatory” and get in the way of “unity.” But healing requires accountability and without it we invite it to happen again.

We came close to half of the House nearly dying on Wednesday. If a foreign head of state, if another head of state, came in and ordered an attack on the United States Congress, would we say that should not be prosecuted? Would we say that there should be absolutely no response to that? No. It is an act of insurrection. It is an act of hostility.

Hunter of Kos reported that the Republican Party is still going full ahead.

Only days after a violent coup by supporters of Donald Trump came unspeakably close to murdering top U.S. leaders, including Trump's own vice president, Republicans are expressing outrage not over the coup attempt, the attempted murders, or the unforgivable lack of federal response, but over private companies deciding that they cannot continue to support the online tools used to help coordinate the violent attack.

For example, Sandy Smith, a GOP candidate for Congress from North Carolina put out new campaign literature, saying she was at the rally to overturn Biden’s steal of the election. As for her own election she claims she would have won if the vote was audited (she lost). Hunter wrote:

This coup is not over. From Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy to Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, the party continues to claim the election that ousted Trump is invalid and that "unity" requires allowing the organizational tools of the coup, its party allies, and their own seditious rhetoric to go unmolested as they continue to push the same pro-Trump hoaxes that American fascists used to justify their attempted murder of top national leaders. This coup is not over, and its enablers fully intend to rebuild their hoaxes rather than abandon them.

The day after the Capitol attack the Republican National Committee elected officers for the new year. When the nasty guy called the meeting he was put on speakerphone and the crowd greeted him with cheers. His slate of officers, including chair Ronna McDaniel, was quickly adopted. Leah McElrath tweeted:

Trump called in to the Republican National Committee meeting this morning...and he was GREETED WITH CHEERS (Don’t believe political theater. Believe how people act when they don’t think they’re being watched.) Republicans are happy with the direction of their political party.

Kaivan Shroff, a Democratic strategist tweeted:

FACT: More people died in the Republican-incited domestic terror attack on the U.S. Capitol than died in Benghazi. Republicans held 33 hearings on Benghazi. But when it comes to their white supremacist terrorist supporters — they just want to “move on” for the sake of “unity.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell of California used the voice of a Capitol attacker:

I know I just supported a raid on where you work. And your boss’s office was vandalized. Sounds like one of your cop friend’s was killed? And you ran for your life as my friends threatened to kill your leader. But, why can’t we, like, get along? C’mon...for the sake of unity?

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Arnold Schwarzenegger, former star of action movies and former governor of California. He’s back with a lot to say about the attack on the Capitol. He was born in Austria in 1947. He compared the attack on the Capitol to Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, a night of rampage against the Jews by the Nazi equivalent to the Proud Boys. He saw what cooperation with the Nazis did to his father and the other fathers in the neighborhood. They would get drunk and strike out to cover the emotional pain of what they saw and did. All of what the Nazis did was based on lies. It is good to hear a Republican tell other Republicans that country comes before party. He called out those who enabled the treachery. Though considerable damage was done to American ideals, he has hope that we’ll strengthen our democracy. We should all wish Biden great success because the nation succeeds if he succeeds. The video is under 8 minutes. I watched it through a post on Kos. It is also in Arnold’s YouTube channel, where it has 24 million views.