The thing about January 6th that still lingers with me is how quickly and viciously MAGA turned on the Capitol Police. Really hammered home how every alleged principle on the right -- in this case, deference to law enforcement -- will be quickly abandoned if it conflicts with Trump's interests.

He Got Away With It by Asawin Suebsaeng for Rolling Stone. "Donald Trump instigated a violent attack on the Capitol. In two weeks, he’ll be sworn in as president at the very same building."

'A Day of Love': How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6. "The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their ultimate political gain."

Ultimately, the reason Donald Trump never faced any consequences for January 6th wasn’t incompetence. It was inconvenience.

Everyone in Congress knew what happened that day. But no one with authority was willing to bear the costs of confronting it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/someone-elses-problem?r=eeyg&utm_medium=ios

The January 6 Attackers Won:

Four years ago, a violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the United States of America. In two weeks, their goal of restoring Donald Trump to power and effectively ending US Constitutional democracy will come to fruition.

Many January 6 participants did not understand the attack as such, or would not articulate it in those terms. But that's what it was. Incited by Trump's lies and illegal conspiracy to stay in power, they violently assaulted Congress in a last-ditch effort to keep the 2020 election loser in the White House. If successful, it would have upended the core principle of American democracy that the candidate who wins the Electoral College becomes the president-elect, with the outgoing president conducting a peaceful transfer of power.

The insurrectionists failed in the moment, but they set off a series of events that transformed US Constitutional democracy by upending the core principle that no one is above the law. Trump faced scrutiny from Congress, the FBI, and the Department of Justice for his coup attempt — along with his other crimes, including stealing and potentially exposing US national security secrets — and still recaptured the presidency.