Five years ago, the media launched a campaign to define conservatives as "racists and white supremacists." Five days ago, they changed the terms to "seditionists and domestic terrorists." The first is to dehumanize the opposition; the second is to justify their repression.
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We have substantial evidence that folks used violence (again, a police officer was murdered) and the language of revolution last week but you keep engaging in the same denial tactics that people who defended BLM did last summer. You are doing exactly why the media did last summer
My argument is pretty simple and consistent: neither the Capitol rioters nor the BLM rioters were actually instigating a coup. They were both engaging in reprehensible political violence—which I condemned—but their "coups" were merely theatrical, postmodern, symbolic.
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Chaz was not performative; the destruction of businesses was not performative; the shooting of David Dorn was not performative.
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If you’re arguing that their use of reprehensible violence was mere play acting and they weren’t seriously trying to overthrow anything, I don’t know what to say.
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The location and stated intent of the riots matters to the designation of whether it's a coup. Attacking the Capitol to prevent the certification of electoral college votes is different than the (awful things) that happened this summer like looting in NYC
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I'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense. Point to a single Trump statement since the election that did not aim to communicate to the American people that their country was literally being stolen.
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