You would be living in a very different nation right now had the seditionists incited by Trump succeeded in their plan to overturn the democratic will of the people.
Defending democracy doesn't stop because you're tired of hearing about it. Justice isn't served when you've decided you've seen enough.
The people who are asking us to “turn the page” on Donald Trump and the January 6 insurrection need to remember how close we came to losing our hard-won democracy, including the – I can't believe I'm writing this - potential hanging of the then Vice President Mike Pence and the assassination of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Had Trump succeeded in his plan, do you have any doubt there would have been Putin-like show trials to silence his remaining critics and purge the United States government of all push back?
Dictators cannot survive democracy and so Trump showed us that it was democracy that had to go. But sadly for him his coup failed and he got caught.
Now, just as those who heeded his call to “fight like hell” and invade the nation's capitol on the dark day of January 6, 2020 are receiving long prison sentences for participating in the violent attack, so should the man who incited them all.
“An insurrection is a rebellion against the authority of the United States. It is a grave federal offense, anchored in the Constitution itself,” Representative Jamie Raskin, said as he announced the January 6 Committee's charges against Trump last month.
The panel asked federal...
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