94DCAg said:
The Senate didn't convict Trump for January 6th because manyRepublicans truly thought he wouldn't run again. I know McConnell, Lankford, Tillis, Rubio, Graham, Portman, Ernst, etc. come to mind as votes that could have been whipped if a few more GOP leaders stood up. Perhaps they thought the courts would work faster than they did....locking Trump up. They couldn't fathom that Trump would be re-elected.....again.
During the '24 election, the amount of lies and scare tactics were extreme. Trump tanking immigration reform, proclaiming "they are eating dogs and cats" (a lie), villainizing/endangering LBTQ (criminal), the CONSTANT scary anti-trans commercials, etc. The Butler event was incredibly pro-Trump vote getting event. It's one of the reasons I truly do not believe it was a Democratic operation. Instead either a lone freak kid or one of those crazy conspiracies floating around about Trump staging it. Not sure we will ever truly know.
Many voters are transactional and distrust both parties. Trump told them what they wanted to hear--"lower taxes", "release the Epstein files," "lower costs on day one" "no-more wars" and "free IVF". Many of those voters were hoodwinked and they know it..now. Plus, there was the oddity of Biden handicapping the Dems by not running again and let the nomination process work itself out. On top of that, Covid made us all crazy. It was a FREAKING WILD SURREAL election.
To say the '24 election proves the irrelevance of January 6th ignores everything else that occurred.
The only reason Trump works so hard to literally destroy the evidence, fabricate nonsense and punish/threaten anyone who speaks the truth is .......he knows what he did was seditious and criminal. He'd be in jail if he didn't get re-elected. That's why Trump pulled out all the lies, hate, and shadiness to get elected.
I saw January 6th live. You did too. The Republican Senators who know better spoke out against it....before the Trump machine threatened them all. You may cling to a thread of a false narratives to prove your point. But you are ignoring a mountain of plain speaking truth to live in your reality.
Trump is a stain on our American experience. Not sure we will survive him.
This response leans hard on hyperbole and speculation, and that weakens it.
The Capitol protest on 1/6/21 was a protest that turned into a riot - chaotic, unlawful, and deserving of prosecutions
for the people who committed crimes. But pretending it was an organized attempt to overthrow the U.S. government orchestrated by Trump is just silly. An insurrection requires planning, leadership, coordination, and a realistic path to seizing power. None of that existed. A disorganized mob breaking windows and wandering the Capitol is not a coup, and insisting it was makes you impossible to take seriously.
Your argument about Senate Republicans acquitting Trump because they "thought he wouldn't run again" is also unfalsifiable. There's no way to prove that wrong, which makes it rhetorically convenient but intellectually flimsy. You can dislike their stated reasons, but replacing them with imagined motives isn't evidenceit's mind-reading.
Inflating one day of disorder into an existential threat to the republic, and treating disagreement as denial of "plain truth," is exactly why many voters tune the whole conversation out. When the language outruns the facts, credibility takes the hit - and that's a big part of why appeals to the 1/6/21 Capitol protest haven't landed with most Americans.
" 'People that read with pictures think that it's simply about a mask' - Dana Loesch" - Ban Cow Gas
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Dr. Ron Paul
Big Tech IS the empire of lies
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