Let’s state what happened on Wednesday for what it was: an insurrection by supporters of President Donald Trump storming the US Capitol. They were the definition of a mob. The insurrection and the Electoral College objections to President-elect Joe Biden’s election that preceded and followed it were an ugly milestone […] Read more »
Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Doomsday Rhetoric
The Republican Party’s “Flight 93” revolution tragically, but almost inevitably, came full circle this week in a storm of insurrectionary violence at the U.S. Capitol. Late in the 2016 presidential campaign, an anonymous author, eventually revealed as Michael Anton, a conservative scholar who later joined the Trump White House, described […] Read more »
Trump Helped Take Extremist Views From The Fringes Of Society To A Mob Attacking The Capitol
Faith in the integrity of the presidential election has been concerningly low for months — in large part because of President Trump’s repeated false claims that the election was stolen from him. And on Wednesday, we saw an extreme example of the consequences of that mistrust when pro-Trump extremists briefly […] Read more »
The Wheels Fall Off The Trump Bandwagon
… Trump seems to have met his match. His own political physics has just crashed against the will of the people. Already relatively low on the eve of January 6th, will his approval ratings dip further? Will he back down? We will see. CONTINUED Clifford Young, Ipsos Read more »
Most Americans blame Trump for Capitol attack but are split on his removal
Nearly two-thirds of Americans place a good deal of the blame on President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but the country is evenly split over whether he should be removed from office before his term ends on Jan. 20, according to the latest PBS […] Read more »
Georgia, the mob, and Mississippi
The picture of the horrific mob that attacked the United States Capitol – encouraged by the President of the United States – will be the indelible after image of his presidency. There is irony in mob violence the same week in which the Democrats won the Senate and Georgia elected […] Read more »