@Kropotkin They are terrorists in my mind. They aren’t ten year olds. These are grown adults, and they don’t get a pass with some excuse about being naive. When they were a crowd protesting on the lawns that’s one thing, once they decided to breach the Capitol, forget it. I’m going to say 90% or more of the people there knew the plan for the day including going in if Pence wouldn’t take action to nullify the vote of the electors. These groups around the country and the world are just like ISIS. Cells just waiting to harm people for what they believe is righteous.
I also believe these extremists to be anarchists. I don’t believe most of them are conservative Republicans, I think most would identify as libertarians, but they take it to the extreme of no government. These alt-right groups adopted the Republican Party, because there is no other choice for them really, and with Trump they got someone who encourages them. The alt-right has successfully brainwashed a lot of Republicans the last 3–4 years, and a lot of Republicans have no idea what is influencing them.
That’s my opinion anyway.
I think there definitely should have been more of a presence of law enforcement before the session ever started. I agree opening the doors for them needs to be investigated. I also think Trump refusing to ok National Guard once it was in full swing was criminal, but I don’t understand the delay for police arriving from Maryland.
I am suspicious about all of the intentions and hopes for what this type of mayhem could accomplish.
Like I said on a couple of Q’s a couple of days ago, reminds of King picking Selma because he felt fairly sure the cops there would be violent.
I also think about the first protest in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed. They (I don’t know who exactly) burned down the police department. Authorities let it happen, it was just so awful Floyd being killed, I think the government understood they couldn’t interfere with what that fire represented.