Aftermath

Just read JVL. He couldn’t be more right.

I particularly appreciate his point about the behavior of the police inside the Capitol: they showed restraint, and because of that restraint more deaths and injuries were prevented. The failure of the police here was allowing the breach of the barricades and allowing the mob to get to the Capitol building in the first place. Now, of course, we have enough video and photo evidence to identify almost everyone who was in the building, and prosecutions must be pursued, not vindictively, but justly and reasonably. Acting AG Rosen is on the record as advocating prosecuting BLM protestors for seditious conspiracy. He had very weak reasons for doing so. What happened Wednesday is textbook seditious conspiracy. It’s one thing to paint graffiti on the side of a federal building and quite another thing to invade the Capitol building while Congress is in session with weapons and to break down doors and windows and inhabit offices and vandalize them. To equate them is to commit a category mistake.

Also, If Trump’s incitement of the mob and his enthusiastic following of the TV coverage of the event isn’t impeachment-level behavior, then I don’t understand what could possibly qualify. Lying about a blow job? Be serious.

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