Democrats and liberals in the national media are going to spend the next 100 years holding last week’s riot on Capitol Hill over the heads of Republicans, bringing it up anytime one of them opens their mouths.
Get used to it, Republicans, but don’t let it become an excuse for giving liberals everything they want.
Democrats are already citing the riot, which was in no small part instigated by President Trump, as a reason for any Republican who so much as whispered about voter fraud or invalid ballots to resign or be forced out of Congress.
Republicans are going to have to quickly relearn to tell Democrats to take a hike. Yeah, the riot was bad. Everyone knows that. Everyone agrees.
But that it happened in no way invalidates legitimate concerns that Republicans and voters, in general, have about the 2020 election not being quite up to snuff. That it happened does not mean Republicans on the federal and local level should abandon investigating the election, nor should they drop attempts to further secure future elections with stricter laws on voter deadlines and mail-in ballots. There’s a difference between the unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” and the very much substantiated claim that it was conducted in a way that invited a lot of problems.
Democrats from now on are going to answer every question or reference to election laws with, “Trump and Republicans started a riot!” It will happen the same way they call every attempt at securing elections “racist.” Oh, well.
And not to minimize the actual riot, but from all that we know so far, the violence was limited to some cops who were roughed up and an unarmed Trump supporter, who was shot dead by police inside the Capitol. One cop died, though the details of what happened to him have not been confirmed, and three protesters also lost their lives but not from physical altercations. All of that is to say it wasn’t exactly 1992 in Los Angeles.
Democrats will naturally want to hang onto this episode forever. Republicans will have to move on.
