If the liberal media is obsessing about it, then it means the country has moved on, and they don't like it. They don't like it because they can't score points on it anymore. The January 6 riot on Capitol Hill was used to smear Trump supporters to no end. We were supposedly cop-killers, insurrectionists, and traitors. This attack, to them, was worse or equal to the 9/11 attacks. But time passed. We "survived." And no cops were killed by the rioters.
It turns out that Officer Brian Sicknick, who the Left weaponized for their own gain, died of natural causes. That narrative was dead, but the lie lives on. The obsession over the Capitol Hill riot is viewed by many in the political class as some catastrophic event. Is it, though? Unlike 9/11, thousands of people didn't die. The government is still intact. Joe Biden was able to be sworn in. Are we just a soft country? And I'm asking liberal America that question.
It's not hard to see why this is happening. We have an ongoing border crisis, inflation is rising, our infrastructure is being hacked, we have a war brewing in Gaza, China is getting more aggressive with Taiwan, and Russia is on the move again. All of this is happening under Biden's watch, and other crises are of his own doing. Democrats are barely hanging onto the House. They need to "wag the dog" here.
To his left, Biden angered the progressive wing by backing a $735 million aid package to Israel and stepped away from a student loan debt forgiveness initiative. He's besieged on all sides and can't take it. So, rehash January 6 because…that's what's on everyone's mind right now.
It's not. We've moved on. I've said this before, but Bill Maher probably had the most grounded commentary about the January 6 riot, noting that this attack isn't representative of all Trump supporters. He did go on to say that Trump didn't help the middle class, which I disagree with, but he also took a swipe at his state, California, and its hyper-regulatory regime that is forcing many to flee to better pastures. This commentary aired a couple of weeks after the incident. If hardcore liberals like Maher could see the nuance here, then others did as well. Only the insufferable echo chambers of the liberal media think that the riot is still fresh in the minds of Americans now.
It's tax season. COVID restrictions are ending all over. And Americans are ready to go out, drink at bars, go to ballgames, and take their families on vacation. The point is there are a host of other more pressing things than the January 6 riot. It's not Pearl Harbor or the firing on Fort Sumter.
Was it good? No. It wasn't one of the country's best days, but the overreaction by the Left only accelerated its shelf life. Liberal media needs a distraction, and on ABC—they got conservative columnist George Will to offer some bipartisan support regarding the "shock to the system" January 6 had, saying it was comparable in that regard to 9/11. No.
America is exceptional at a lot of things, especially when it comes to these so-called existential crises. Trump was supposed to never leave office. He did. He was going to ruin our institutions. Well, trust in them had been eroding for years. Even under Obama, trust in government was not good, especially among Millennials of all people. Post-2016, the liberal media and the Deep State did well to further denigrate trust in institutions when those who were thought to be apolitical leaked sensitive information to hamstring an administration they didn’t like. Some of these people, like Andrew McCabe of the FBI, who was in the thick of the Russian collusion fiasco, have not been punished but have found employment elsewhere, like CNN, where they still give legal commentaries.
Alas, this may be the real reason why the January 6 riot scares the political class. It showed that the people could get them in their own dojo. It didn't take that many people to breach the Capitol Building. And this was a half-a**ed effort at best, mind you. Imagine if the number of folks was twice the number. Even with more police, it's doubtful they could have stopped this. They can't. The people will and should engulf all who don't do their jobs. For decades, it has been "all talk, no action." And the people are very pissed off about it. They should be. The political class is vulnerable. They know we can get them. That's why they keep obsessing about January 6. This is their therapy, and they're hoping we care. We don't care. We should never care about this elite class that has never cared about us.
