I. Glenn Greenwald — Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath:
Some excerpts:
It is stunning to watch now as every War on Terror rhetorical tactic to justify civil liberties erosions is now being invoked in the name of combatting Trumpism, including the aggressive exploitation of the emotions triggered by yesterday’s events at the Capitol to accelerate their implementation and demonize dissent over the quickly formed consensus. The same framework used to assault civil liberties in the name of foreign terrorism is now being seamlessly applied — often by those who spent the last two decades objecting to it — to the threat posed by “domestic white supremacist terrorists,” the term preferred by liberal elites, especially after yesterday, for Trump supporters generally. In so many ways, yesterday was the liberals’ 9/11, as even the most sensible commentators among them are resorting to the most unhinged rhetoric available.
The complete reversal in mentality from just a few months ago is dizzying. Those who spent the summer demanding the police be defunded are furious that the police response at the Capitol was insufficiently robust, violent and aggressive. Those who urged the abolition of prisons are demanding Trump supporters be imprisoned for years. Those who, under the banner of “anti-fascism,” demanded the firing of a top New York Times editor for publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) advocating the deployment of the U.S. military to quell riots — a view deemed not just wrong but unspeakable in decent society — are today furious that the National Guard was not deployed at the Capitol to quash pro-Trump supporters.
II. Handwaving Freakoutery — Stop Calling it a “Coup”:
My favourite parts:
I find it hard to believe that I have to keep explaining to panicked liberals that there is no Secret Darksaber hidden in the Senate podium, which if found by a man in a buffalo hat and body paint would give him control of the entire free world. A coup is an attempt by a military to depose a government, gaining control of a country. These knuckleheads weren’t trying to gain control of the United States.
The right is anti-science whenever science impacts their ability to provide for themselves or their families. (see: climate change) But the left is anti-science whenever science hurts someone's feelings. (see: "healthy at any size," "37 genders," "IQ isn't real") Reality is abandoned whenever it conflicts with people's personality inclinations, which are largely genetic. Neither the left nor the right may claim dominion over reality.
The world’s most obvious and predictable protest was going to happen no matter who won. Because Biden won, it was over "election fraud," but if Trump won it was going to happen over "election interference" after a month-long media tirade about post office problems or whatever. And both protests would look about the same, with about the same behaviors, and about the same amount of justification in "reality." Yet the reaction to it from the left would be opposite, and the reaction to it from the right would be opposite, if the participants flipped.
Two takes on the recent storming of Congress by Trump supporters
Two takes on the recent storming of Congress by Trump supporters
Two takes on the recent storming of Congress by Trump supporters
Both Glenn Greenwald and Handwaving Freakoutery have good takes on this.
I. Glenn Greenwald — Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath:
Some excerpts:
II. Handwaving Freakoutery — Stop Calling it a “Coup”:
My favourite parts: