In a divided America, the occasions that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon bring us all together in a universal sense of national shame and dishonor.
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States, traditionally a beacon of freedom and a citadel of freedom, has a striking example of dysfunction: democracies around the world, established and nascent, can only watch with horror the television photographs of a pro-Trump Mob stormed the August center of the U. S. government, crowded their bars , broke windows and flooded his statue room.
Congratulations, Mr. Trump, Our glittering city on the hill is now a foggy emblem of national disgrace. The American carnage he promised to eliminate at the beginning of his tenure and a truth at the end.
The scenes looked like a bad-acting film: protesters descending on the Capitol, armed but inferior security forces barricaded themselves with guns in their hand, fired tear fuel and pushed members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to safety. Capitol Hill was later pronounced dead in the hospital. And, in an emblematic symbol of natural insurrection, a sufficient protester sits in the president’s chair in the evacuated Senate House.
How is it possible that the Capitol was so vulnerable even when protesters piled up in giant numbers in the city center?It will be time to investigate and perceive how the government was un prepared for this avalanche of troublemakers and so slow to reclaim the Capitol.
But there are few questions about what it is about.
Just before Congress meets in a joint consultation for the ministerial task of counting electoral votes, with Joe Biden elected the next president of the United States, Trump presented his stale conspiracy theories about a stolen election at a rally at the Ellipse White House.
He closed his comments urging his supporters to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and publicize their grievances. “We’re just going to check to give (Republicans in Congress) the kind of pride and audacity they want to bring to our account. back off, ” suggested Trump.
And they followed each and every word he said.
The scrutiny in Congress of constitutionally banned electoral votes had to be suspended and, like an arsonman enjoying his work, Trump saw the chaos spread from White House security. Eventually, he suggested to his fervent followers that they should not be violent and return home. .
Too small. It’s too late.
What to do with this guy who brought so much ignominy to our country?Censorship through Congress? Certainly, the exposure of criminals for inciting violence and pres presying the Secretary of State of Georgia to oppose the purposes of this state’s elections?
But can the punishment be appropriate for the crime? Four years of Trump’s divisive leadership have produced ungodly behavior, a failed handling of a pandemic that has killed 360,000 Americans, and an attack on democracy through self-centered and synthetic accusations of voter fraud.
And now, as a cornerstone, he fostered the violence of the mob that had all the hallmarks of an insurrection.
At all times, he has been encouraged through flattering Republican facilitators in Congress, who promptly abandon their shameful efforts to decertify electoral college votes from battlefield states won through Democrat Joe Biden.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former repairman, said in 2019 that Trump would not cede strength peacefully if he lost the election. Cohen, who knew Trump better than anyone, was prophetic.
One way or another, however, Trump will soon leave the White House and it will be up to Biden and the other people of the United States to convince the world that Wednesday’s shameful photographs are not the essence of America.
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