Sedition, treason, and attempted coup (including acts, attempted and successful, of domestic terrorism): all of which have been directly incited by the President (as well as people like Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, Jr., and Republican members of Congress from both houses of Congress) of the U.S., who is not only a megalomaniacal narcissist prone to both psychopathy and sociopathy, but transparently evil (when not immoral) as well (the most glaring example of which is his deliberate mishandling of our country’s pandemic). He should be immediately removed from office per the 25th Amendment (or impeached forthwith, which seems unlikely) and incarcerated.
Where was the National Guard?! Why did not responsible office holders and national security bureaucrats plan for this? Had this mob been anyone else, that is, not right-wing nut-jobs—proto-fascists and fascists—they would have been gassed, arrested, and shot with deadly force (as occurred during Black Lives Matter protests). All those in Congress who have been supporting Trump’s psychotic-like beliefs and delusional phantasies (including those of a conspiratorial nature) should be held to account (at the very least they are complicit, but in many respects aiding and abetting). Yet more concrete evidence of actions (violent and otherwise) in furtherance of an insurrectionary deconstruction of a Liberal democratic republic, a deconstruction that assumed sundry anti-democratic modes (illegal, unconstitutional, and political in the basest sense) with the onset of Trump’s tenure in office. This deconstruction was undoubtedly set in motion long before Trump, but the President and his sycophants have shamelessly and gleefully accelerated it, adding fuel to a smoldering fire, thereby igniting a conflagration, authoritarian arsonists behaving, to date, with absolute impunity.
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