'Gobsmacking Fabulists 'R Us'
For the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power have concocted a deranged revisionist history of such “evil,” “pathological,” “Stalin-level propaganda” it’s somehow dragged us even further through the looking glass. In its telling, “orderly patriots” marched to the Capitol, Democrats who “masterfully reversed reality” “staged the real rebellion,” and Trump “triumphed over tyranny.” Up is down. What the fuck. Orwell lives.
A few days ago, Robert Reich described the Jan. 6 insurrection as “the most shameful day in American history.” He later wisely upped the ante to draw a direct line from that crime to all the rest, including his capture of Maduro, arguing they’re all based on the same disturbing premise: “The hubris of omnipotence.” Many have made the same connection, calling Jan. 6 a stark “fork in the road” whose moral implications - supremacy of political loyalty over the rule of law - poisoned all that followed. It became “the moment we lost the plot,” “a riot that never ended,” not “the final, violent death spasms of the cult of Trump” as many thought but “the dawn of Trump’s total liberation.” Today, amidst all the gaslighting, denial, lies, the ongoing, well-fed hubris, we pay the price.
A few weeks ago, former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, testifying that his team had “proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.” We all know Trump should be behind bars. Tragically, he isn’t, because he inexplicably weaseled his way into getting elected, a complicit, lawless SCOTUS gave him an unconscionable lifeline, Merrick Garland was a dud, Biden got old, and Smith was forced to drop the case. Since then, Trump has blasted ahead with his revenge tour, his toadies have gutted the DOJ, the far-right, fueled by Charlie Kirk’s death, has soared, and truth has lost at every mournful turn.
And so to Trump’s “day of love” as framed by a demented J6 website, widely deemed “disgusting lies,” “an absolute disgrace,” and “a despicable, shameful distortion of reality by a lawless, rogue White House.” With a stark black and white banner portraying a supposed gallery of villains composed of - surprise! - Democrats, along with traitorous Cheney and Kinzinger, it opens with the florid claim, “President Trump took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples... They were punished to cover incompetence.” It boasts Trump, on his first day in office, pardoned nearly 1,600 “patriotic Americans...treated as insurrectionists by a weaponized Biden DOJ” for “exercising their First Amendment rights.”
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https://www.commondreams.org/further/gobsmacking-fabulists-r-us
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