Observance of January 6 Insurrection Starkly Differs From Left to Right
Observance of January 6 Insurrection Starkly Differs From Left to Right
“America has a choice to make, and President Biden’s speech today will land in history books as a marker, regardless of what happens next,” CNN anchor observes
Official Washington DC — along with the nation — stopped Thursday to observe the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the January 6 US Capitol Building.
However, how the day was marked varied widely from left to right, politically.
A year ago, thousands of extremist supporters of Donald Trump's stormed into the Capitol Building in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to overturn the lawful and legitimate certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
Like seemingly everything else, how Americans perceive the political violence and sedition of that day is split starkly across the political spectrum.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced, as part of a January 6 remembrance, a song by Lin Manuel Miranda performed by the cast of the hit musical, Hamilton, according to reporter Arthur Delaney.
The House speaker, who saw her office vandalized a year ago by Trump rioters, also hosted a talk with prominent authors and historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham.
The founders would “want us to defend their experiment,” Meacham said, according to Rep Eric Swalwell (D-Calif).
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each delivered solemn remarks in the nation’s capital.
“America has a choice to make, and President Biden’s speech today will land in history books as a marker, regardless of what happens next. Will our democratic experiment live on or crumble?” commented Kasie Hunt, of CNN.
At least some educators — such as Sari Beth Rosenberg, a New York City teacher popular on social media — actually conducted lessons Thursday about the insurrection.
Then there's the other side, over on the right, which has gone out of their way to diminish and whitewash the disastrous events of one year ago.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are about to host a presser. It’s in a tiny room absolutely JAMMED with reporters and photographers — it’s the only GOP event today,” Delaney tweeted.
Gaetz, the Republican congressman from Florida, even went as far as blaming Pelosi for the small room.
And these Republicans, and others, continued to peddle outright lies and fabrications.
“The presser is just Gaetz insinuating feds caused the entire riot,” Delaney posted. “One year ago today Gaetz said it was antifa. He has graduated to pointing to people in videos and speculating they are feds. That’s it.”
Gaetz and Greene went onto former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's podcast, completely unapologetic about the chaos and destruction wrought last year.
“We’re ashamed of nothing. We’re proud of the work we did on January 6th and we’re actually going to walk the grounds that patriotic Americans walked from the White House to the Capitol,” the Florida Republican told Bannon's audience.
“Fuck these traitorous bastards,” commented former top Republican strategist-turned-“Never Trumper” Rick Wilson.
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