Well, today's events at the U.S. Capitol certainly merit the term "shameful," as rioters egged on by our mentally deranged criminal-in-chief stormed the Capitol, seeking to disrupt the proceedings.
There is lots of shame to go around:
for the "protesters" who allowed themselves to be hornswoggled once again by a serial liar;
for Trump's many, many Republican enablers who have consciously sought to undermine U.S. election procedures based on nothing more than their lack of courage or even a shred of concern for their sworn duties ;
shame too, I must say, despite their valiant efforts, on Capitol security officials who failed to prepare for an attack that was certain to come;
shame for our news media, who can only sit around and lament that they've "never seen anything like this;
even greater shame, though of a somewhat different sort, for the millions of Americans who had enough common sense NOT vote for Trump yet are stuck with this degrading view of their democracy;
and even a smidgen of shame - the shame of ignorance - for those voters who DID vote for him without being able to see what he was, and is.
Who in this country tonight is without shame? Only Donald Trump. And while many involved in the aftermath of today's events are suggesting the worst is over, I would remind them that Trump is still with us (which means of course, that he is against us). He did not retracted his incitement of the rioters, but instead reiterated his baseless claims that the election was stolen from him! I think we should consider that his whole performance today was calculated to produce the result it did. Definitely, it will delay still further the official certification of the election results; but -- think like Trump for a moment and wonder if the resultant chaos at the Capitol may presage more chaos on inauguration day, or perhaps (just perhaps) his attempt to declare martial law and call the entire election null and void. Would that make his enablers stand up and be counted? Maybe. But ONLY MAYBE.
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