Do you remember back when (2 days ago), you were horrified by Trump’s threatening phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State?
Yesterday, Trump effectively said: “You think that’s bad? Hold my beer.”
I woke up early today, and unfortunately, he is still in office, still tweeting (via a staffer’s account), saying that there will be a “peaceful transition”. Too late. Four people are dead, many wounded, (including our republic). Hundreds of people were allowed to breach the Capitol, the temple of Democracy. Hundreds of MAGA-hat wearing, fur-bearing, Confederate flag-waving, cloven-hooved non-patriots were allowed to literally smash the windows and doors of the most sacred symbol of our country and ransack its rooms.
You can’t look at images of BLM protestors being met with tear gas and rubber bullets, with violence and bloodshed and arrest juxtaposed with those of Capitol police opening the gates and allowing domestic terrorists to break into the building and tell me that systemic racism doesn’t exist. If it had been another demonstration (say, in a park across from where the President wanted to hold up a Bible), it would have been an entirely different outcome. Nobody tweeted to the BLM protestors that they were “very special” or “we know how you feel” or “we love you”. No, they were treated very differently.
Law enforcement in DC should have seen this coming. Trump knew exactly what he was doing. He’s been working his base up into a frenzy since the election. Yesterday, he commanded his supporters to storm the Capitol.
I’m disgusted. And disappointed. And sickened that he is still in office after the tragic and terrifying events of yesterday. He did a tremendous amount of damage to our country in less than twenty-four hours. Imagine how much he can still do between now and January 20.
