A couple of weeks ago, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump publicly complimented each other—Biden praising Trump’s mobilization to produce vaccines, and Trump both acknowledging Biden’s change of heart and promoting the value of vaccinations to his followers. Those modest steps to jointly address a critical national concern evidently didn’t sit too well with others in Washington, DC. Yesterday, on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, President Biden went to the Capitol to declare that the only way forward was to not bury the past, but make it the litmus test for who could be involved in political activity in the future.
In fact, the Jan. 6 events were a modern kind of “Reichstag Fire,” a well-prepared provocation with heavy participation of known FBI stringers and informants.
With a demagogic fury, Biden presented “God’s truth” about Trump’s ego, his disdain for the Constitution, and his instigation and incitement of rioters so as to hold a dagger to the throat of America. Along the way, Biden signalled his determination to only work with Republicans who renounce Trump, and so prove that they are not against our democracy. Dick Cheney was on hand, as a visual aid, to illustrate the type of alliances considered acceptable. Also, since the state laws, now attempting to address the extra-legal expansion of absentee balloting in the novel ‘Covid’ voting situation, are a “subversion” of democratic rights and “frankly un-American,” such a development will not be allowed to happen.
