@The Original Sixth
What happened on Jan 6th was why I didn't go to any Trump rallies or gatherings; too many MAGA grifters, Lefty agent provocateurs, and general scammers out to use Trump's base to make a buck selling Trump merch or to try to incite an incident because they are one variety of accelerationist or another.
Yeah, Trump attracts a lot of those, just as the Progressive movement attracts its own.
As well, a media and tech partnership to censor and eventually completely silence Trump at the most critical time. Trump tried to tell people to stop the destruction and breaching of the Capitol, and that was when Jack Dorsey/Twitter banned him, to help maintain a narrative; I saw this happen in real time on Twitter that day.
I agree that the timing is suspicious and I expect that it was an underhanded attempt to make Trump look bad. But that would be Jack Dorsey, not the Democratic Party that made that decision. Might they have put him up to it? Certainly. But he's got enough malice that he'd do it himself.
A good example of shit the 'Right' did to help justify there accusations would be the shit that Nick Fuentes's followers did the night before, where they urged people to storm the capital, and took place in a legit barricade break down that injured officers, based on some video that's come out.
And that's why people like Nick Fuentes and his followers should be arrested.
It's part of why I'd prefer DeSantis leading the 2024 ticket with someone else as VP these days; he can continue Trump's work, without all of Trump's baggage.
I would argue that you should wait until 2022 to decide on that. Right now, the Trump baggage that is proven, is really only that he tends to stir up the Liberals and so they will turn out in larger numbers. There is a potential that he might be stuck with the Jan 6th riots and I expect that the Media will try and stick it on him, believing that if they take Trump out, they take out the populist movement. Or at least, the hope that this will diminish their power. Both neocons and neoliberals would prefer that.
Right now though, I don't think there's any real way to know how the public feels. Primarily because I think the public is sick of the lockdowns and politics. They had to basically sit in their house while people on the left and the right rioted. And I think there are a fair number of Trump voters, moderate and right-wing, who are angry that the two riots were treated differently by the core media. BLM riots were treated as only protests, where as the Capital Hill riot was treated as if it were 9/11. Right now, I think the public is more interested in enjoying their summer, the autumn, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
I don't think the public will be ready to really engage with politics until 2022. And that is a long time from the 2021 Jan 6th riots. They won't have the same punch then. And I expect that the Progressives in the Democratic party might decide to make a push for positions in the House and Senate. So this fight isn't really over for anybody. It has just begun and we won't know what either party will look like until 2-3 elections from now.
So if Trump and his faction do well in 2022, then there's a chance that Trump is actually a favorable candidate. Because the communists and progressives are pissed at the rest of the Democratic party, so they may not show up. Because as far as they're concerned, there isn't much difference between Biden and Trump. And if they're going to get locked out of the Democratic apparatus, then why should they provide the Democrats with the votes?
Though I'm also at the point where I'm not sure any voting matters anymore, so all any concern over trying to win at the polls could be completely moot anyway.
Republicans have been introducing bills in states they control to combat that. And if there was cheating, the best time to ever do it was during the pandemic, because social distancing could be used as an excuse to limit witnesses. So unless there's a second pandemic in 2022 and a third in 2024, the Democrats aren't going to get that chance again.
Which is why I say to every one of you; get a fucking vaccine and encouraging others to get it. Because all you're doing is putting your fellow Republican voters in the hospital and giving the Democrats a built-in excuse to have COVID type restrictions. Republicans need to accept the loss and the bullshit of the last election and move forward.