“FAILED INSURRECTION”
Trump supporter mob overruns capital while congress is in session, 1 dead
POLITICO
What can be said?
President Donald Trump began the day with yet another demonstration that he does not accept the results of the November 3rd election that saw him lose to Joe Biden. He ended it with his reputation even further tarnished and culpable for what looked to the world like an attempted coup. This was a step beyond, even for a man who has built a career on shredding norms.
His insistence on pushing this beyond every boundry yielded a result that has lost him all credible allies within his own party and likely left a black mark on his legacy that will never be forgotten.
At every turn he had the option to pack his tent and reload for another run. He failed to do so.
Anyone who has listened to my words or read this newsletter knows that I am not one for hyperbole. I’ve done my best to block out the noise and understand his rambling logic and resulting actions as that of a counter puncher roiling a too-staid institution which has separated itself from the people it governs.
But let me make this plain:
When a mob with your name on it, literally, interferes with the elected government and your first response is to double-down on the claims that motivated them? You are no longer playing the game of politics. You are subverting the American Experiment.
It’s no longer defiance, it’s a disgrace.
Conservative rabble-rouser Mike Cernovich put it this way.
That’s where we are!
This was a disaster on every level. A disaster one man failed to avoid.
And a deadly one at that. One member of the mob, a veteran, was shot and killed.
On top of that it’s a betrayal of a movement that saw some kind of hope in the chaos he caused. I spoke to a man at the Dalton Trump rally on Monday that genuinely believes Trump was robbed. He came out in a cold North Georgia night to support him.
He hoped Trump’s push to change the results would end within a week.
I don’t know that man’s heart. I didn’t get his number to ask him what he thought of the events today. But he seemed in our brief chat like a decent man who loved his country. I bring this up to say that even that man hoped what Trump brought, a populist fighter who thumbed his nose at the entrenched power structure could last. Because that spirit was more than a man. More than an election.
If that man’s patience was wearing thin this is a moment that breaks it.
Of course, there are many on party lines for whom have called Trump a callow, selfish, power-hungry autocrat since he came down the escalator. Today, they have irrefutable images and video to prove they were always right. That anyone who supported him, including that man in Dalton, are accomplices.
Hell, many of your reading might even think that of me, as I’ve always attempted to find the humanity in the chaos. Or maybe that’s just my Twitter mentions.
I don’t know if impeachment is the answer. Or the 25th Amendment.
I do know this: citizens interrupting the mechanisms of government (no matter how odious they find the cogs) for the benefit of one man’s political future isn’t a protest… it’s an insurrection.
Donald Trump failed to unite this country.
Donald Trump failed to win re-election.
Donald Trump failed to prove he was cheated.
Donald Trump failed to create a productive movement for those that revered him most.
Donald Trump is, by any definition, a failure.
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I was joined by Andrew Heaton (Political Orphanage) and Jen Briney (Congressional Dish) to discuss the mob attack on congress and what this means for politics moving forward.