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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, J 12 AN. 29-FEB. 4, 2021
BY ALEX MITCHELL
Three weeks ago, the U.S. Capitol was
raided by an angry mob of individuals
seeking to interrupt the Congressional
certifi cation of the presidential election.
That the mob failed to accomplish its
mission is not punishment enough. That
former President Trump, who helped incite
the mob’s attack with weeks of lies
and anti-government, anti-democratic
rhetoric, is no longer in offi ce is not punishment
enough.
Senate Republicans, and most mainstream
Republicans, simply want to
move on from the attack on the U.S. Capitol
as if nothing ever happened — even
though the republic can’t afford such an
abandonment of accountability.
Do they not realize, or just not care
about, the dangers of such ignorance or
the gravity of the attack itself?
The more we learn about the Capitol
coup attempt, the more horrifi c it looks.
It wasn’t vandalism, or anything resembling
a righteous, respectful protest.
The mob came looking to confront,
attack and potentially imprison or kill
duly elected members of government.
They sent elected members of Congress,
and their aides, into lockdown, in fear of
their lives.
They called for the hanging of the former
vice president.
They brutally beat an offi cer to
death.
They sought to overturn the law, the
popular will of 81 million Americans and
two centuries of peaceful transitions to
power from one president to another.
They were ginned up by the rhetoric
of the former president, and his enablers,
who for weeks shouted falsehoods about
rigged elections.
And they’ll do it again if they can get
away with it this time.
As much as this country needs unity,
it also needs accountability. As much as
this country wants to forget about the
past, it must learn from it to preserve the
future.
Republicans are making a grave mistake
by trivializing the Capitol coup, and
reducing the second Trump impeachment
as being a political game. Their
cynicism and cronyism puts future presidents,
and our democratic republic, at
serious risk.
It would be as deleterious to the republic
as if the United States did nothing
to respond to Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 terrorist
attacks.
Any enemy, foreign and domestic,
would look upon a government that failed
to protect itself, its citizens and its system
of government as prime for another
assault.
In short, by continuing to protect
Trump, Republicans seem all too willing
to allow democracy to someday be sacrifi
ced upon the altar of fascism.
Pro-Trump and
anti-democracy
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm the Capitol Building, January 6. REUTERS/Ahmed
Gaber/File Photo Stringer .
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