Well, Trump was diselected, but he rallied up a mob to storm the Capitol and did all he could to stay in power. He even attacked Pence for doing his constitutional duty. If Pence hadn't called in security forces, only God knows what would have happened. Most likely, Trump would have used the turmoil as a pretext to call out a state of emergency and prevented the certification of Biden's victory from happening.
If he had done that, I would criticize him for it.
In fact, I do criticize him for his over-blown rhetoric of January 6th. But I don't criticize him often for that.
Why not?
Because the criticism of Trump is itself over-blown. On January 6th, Trump made a speech. That's the beginning and end of his supposed wrong-doing that day. I don't want to be associated with people who accuse Trump of a crime for his speech. The 1A still means something to me.
To this day, he believes and states that the election was "stolen." He has a right to say that, and given the shenanigans that took place in swing states, it's a reasonable opinion, agree or disagree.
I criticize the January 6th rioters, but also not very often. Because I don't want to be on the same side as people who cheered the violence of BLM and ANTIFA for the year of 2020, and then suddenly decided that politically motivated violence became wrong on January 6th 2021.
I don't want to side with people whose answer to the murder of police officers by rioters is that we need to defund the police, but whose answer to the police killings of unarmed people on January 6th was to exonerate the officers involved. Why are the D.C. Capitol police the only police in the world that liberals support (other than the secret police of communist countries, I suppose)?
I don't want to side with people who advocate that they justice department hound American citizens for attending a protest in D.C. on Jan 6th, whether they were involved in violence or not.
Ever since then, Trump and almost the entire spineless ilk of Republicans who follow him, spread the lie that elections only matter when Republicans win. By doing so, Trump is preparing another putsch in 2024, in case he's losing again.
It's obvious as daylight the Republican party no longer respects free elections, and by doing so, they have turned their backs on the Constitution -- just like in all the other banana republics in Latin America or Africa, where transitions of power have less to do with elections, but with putsches and coups.
Actually, I am seeing the Republicans - and a couple of Democrats - fight
for free elections, but not allowing the Democrat Party's so-called, "voting rights" bills, which are nothing more than open invitations to cheating, to pass.
And frankly, when you're not seeing that, there is no sense in debating with you or your kind -- you're supporters of autocratic tyranny who don't even have the slightest interest in honest debate. All you want is abusing debate in order to foster propaganda and narratives that have the goal of establishing tyranny.
So good luck with that. You're the enemy.
So much empty rhetoric, and so little facts.
