The number of people who minimize this event, or claim a false equivalence to the riots throughout the country, is far too large. People do not understand the seriousness, which is why there are so many candidates who stil claim that the election was stolen and have a good shot at winning.
We take our democracy for granted and assume that it will continue to operate, from say momentum, as a democracy, but it does take active work like Pelosi is doing here to keep it from being taken by mobs.
@Mike Haubrich – I’m not American and I am still reeling from the shock of this. I’m astonished that libertarians/right Republicans (and equivalents in the UK) are saying “What about the riots then?” Riots are common enough – dangerous and repugnant – but containable. An attack on the governing heartland at a crucial moment of the democratic process, egged on by a departing President, is unprecedented in the Anglosphere at least.
By this video, Pelosi looks like a patriot who is has taken charge in appalling circumstances – just the kind of figure you would think to appeal to an ordinary conservative.
It shocks me that I have a more basic faith in proper institutions and traditions than supposed conservatives (this happened in the UK as well, when Johnson tried to prorogue parliament and the Daily Mail was attacking the judges that opposed this as Enemies of the People).
The number of people who minimize this event, or claim a false equivalence to the riots throughout the country, is far too large. People do not understand the seriousness, which is why there are so many candidates who stil claim that the election was stolen and have a good shot at winning.
We take our democracy for granted and assume that it will continue to operate, from say momentum, as a democracy, but it does take active work like Pelosi is doing here to keep it from being taken by mobs.
@Mike Haubrich – I’m not American and I am still reeling from the shock of this. I’m astonished that libertarians/right Republicans (and equivalents in the UK) are saying “What about the riots then?” Riots are common enough – dangerous and repugnant – but containable. An attack on the governing heartland at a crucial moment of the democratic process, egged on by a departing President, is unprecedented in the Anglosphere at least.
By this video, Pelosi looks like a patriot who is has taken charge in appalling circumstances – just the kind of figure you would think to appeal to an ordinary conservative.
It shocks me that I have a more basic faith in proper institutions and traditions than supposed conservatives (this happened in the UK as well, when Johnson tried to prorogue parliament and the Daily Mail was attacking the judges that opposed this as Enemies of the People).