No, the summer rioters were not typical Biden voters, although the ones who weren't too drugged up to vote in November no doubt voted for him. In fact, most of the ones who were literate probably despised Biden. But they're on your side of the barricades, which is why Kamala Harris said, smiling,
"“They’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop and this is a movement, I’m telling you. Everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up — and they should not. And we should not.”
And Harris encouraged people to donate to a fund that bailed rioters ouf of jail. (It's really amuzing to watch the so-called 'Fact Checker' site SNOPES twist and turn to get around this fact. Read their whitewash for yourself:
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Did Kamala Harris Bail Out 'Violent Rioters' During George Floyd Protests? ] )
But we must be fair. Pelosi did condemn the summer riots ... after a while, when she realized that they weren't popular with middle America: [
Pelosi condemns rioters – but 'only as polls tighten after "$2b in damage"' ] She's not stupid.
No, the summer rioters were not your typical Democrat, some of whom, at least, are still patriots. That is, they don't despise or sneer at their own country. But all the 6 January rioters, deluded and wrong as they were, most definitely love their country. And that makes them patriots.
By the way, there is the possibility of demagogy here. I don't regard love of country as some supreme virtue, above all others. Its just an extended version of self-love, in fact: me, my family, my clan, my tribe ... and now, my country. Terrible crimes have been committed by patriots acting out of patriotism. The good aspect of it is that it is a leap beyound kin-altruism, at least in a multi-racial country like the US.
In fact the Old Left's ideal of international human brotherhood is a higher ideal. However, at this point in human history, the material conditions for its realization are absent. People cannot jump over their own heads.
And the peculiar circumstances of the United States -- its golden geography, its very fortunate history in terms of which tribe of Europeans took it away from the original inhabitants -- makes it of central importance for the defense of civilization in the world today.
So, hooray for American patriotism, and for Americans who love their country, regardless of the crimes and blunders a minority of them committed on 6 January. ( Note that 6 January was, by the standards of the media, a 'mostly peaceful protest'. 2500 rioters out of 120 000 protestors -- that's about 2% of the protestors. The majority of those arrested -- 600 out of 700 when this estimate was made -- were unaffiliated to any group. These were mainly patriotic individuals who made a bad mistake. )
We can apportion some blame to Trump for some of his language -- although he called on the protestors to remain peaceful, a more competent leader would have organized stewards for the march to the Capitol to make sure that provocateurs or crazies couldn't stampede some of the crowd into doing what they did.
Patriots know that these people are our own. May we soon organize ourselves and avoid all such traps in the future.
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