Nice diversion to avoid the topic of your faulty charge that Trump is anti democracy. Just wait until you get the real story about Jan 6. I assure it was not instigated by Trump.
There were all sorts of groups converging on the Capitol that day. Many had become unhinged just from watching the Fox propaganda network echoing Trump's
Big Lie that the election had been stolen! It's not surprising for someone with NPD to be completely unable to accept defeat.
Letter states that the Republican candidate ‘appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup’
www.independent.co.uk
It's not so much that Trump is mentally unwell - it's that he has a disorder - a reduced capacity to empathise and see the world as it is. He is a very dangerous man in a very dangerous position.
The Big Lie cost Fox News and Rupert Murdoch $787 million USD, and Rupert Murdoch stated in court that even with all his journalists working on the story - there was no real evidence of vote rigging in the 2020 election.
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news...l-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
So Trump lied. Bigly! This remains one of the biggest scandals in recent American history - and yet Republicans white-wash it for some reason.
But the right love their echo-chambers - and are loyal to QANON (15% of Americans), Fox News, and Trump.
Then Jan 06 arrived. During his campaign and speeches and debates, Trump famously 'dog-whistled' to various crazy groups - including QANON - tweeting WWG1WGA. He appeared to endorse the Proud Boys when he said "Stand back, stand by." He did not mind appealing to all manner of extremists - as long as they voted for him.
(PS: What is with American militant groups having such bad names? "Oath-keepers" sounds like a church purity movement. "Proud Boys" sounds like the opposite - some sort of Mardi Gras float! But I digress.)
Many QANON types were already convinced "The Storm" was coming to prevent Biden's inauguration on the 20th - an actual military coup. With this in the air - so many groups there were primed for violence to prevent Certification on Jan 6. But the main issue? The Big Lie. If citizens genuinely believed the Big Lie Trump pushed and Fox repeated - then he holds responsibility for what happened on the day.
Jan 06 arrives. Trump turns up and rallies the crowd! From conservative, gentle church folk through to that foaming-at-the-mouth Shaman - he rallied them. They heard THEIR PRESIDENT saying:
'We won this election, and we won it by a landslide'
'We will stop the steal'
'We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen'
'If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore'
Then he DID say:
'Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'
But then he also said....
'We are going to the Capitol'
Really? Trump didn't go with them. Many might have thought he was going with them - adding to the frenzy of excitement that day.
The rest his history. The Capitol stormed. 5 dead. 1600 protestors moving illegally through the Capital - hundreds convicted of violence against police. And Trump? He pardoned them all. They were heroes to him. They verified his worldview. That he is the centre of the universe - the bigliest and most wondefulist thing to happen to the planet. And so the 'law and order' party pardoned people who killed cops.
Great job!