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Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans?
(www.theguardian.com)
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it would never have happened in the first place. if roles were reversed, there would have been adequate forces in place to prevent it from escalating.
Remember, Trump made sure to have a relatively light law enforcement presence in the capital. There were no unscalable barricades present. there was no call for the Nat Guard- despite assurances they were ready to go, and that was trump's call.
the entire insurrection was planned by people who wanted to put trump back in the white house by any means necessary. I don't know that it was entirely planned by trump- he's a moron- but it was certainly done with his cooperation.
Exactly: we saw precisely how it would have worked during the Black Lives Matter protests the summer before:
As far as I'm concerned, that stark dichotomy is absolute proof in and of itself (let alone the pile of other evidence) that the coup was orchestrated from the very top.
Absolutely.
anybody who doubts it is either complicit or has been buried under a rock for the last... decade or so.
He directed it. His stooges were very close to success though.
Yes. They were. It's fairly scary.
And very Beerhall Putsch-ish. too bad his base doesn't bother to learn history correctly, and that's why we're all doomed.
You sure about that? Seems to me his base is learning its history just fine, since they're managing to speedrun Hitler's rise to power even faster than Hitler did.
We've really got to quit underestimating the enemy and get serious about defending ourselves.
those aren't the bulk of his base.
Most of his base are deluded into thinking he's not actually like hitler. That he's some how moral, and a really good guy who would never.
Most of his base are morons voting against their own interests.
The orange asshole, aka the second coming of Christ (according to many who've partaken of his koolaid).
The tactics are what they successfully learned, and they don't have to actually understand that he's like Hitler in order to execute those.