Tag: Capitol attack

• Republicans are inadvertently voting themselves off the island

  Last I heard, today was revolution day, take two. The insurrection of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 failed but at the cost of a half dozen deaths. Today is the day Trump is finally supposed to become president again somehow, or maybe it’s king. This appear to be the latest conspiracy theory going around…

  Mark

  March 4, 2021

  Politics 2021

  Autocracy, Capitol attack, Democracy, Donald Trump, For the People Act, March 4, QAnon, Republican Party, Republicans

• Trump’s predictable denouement

  What’s been going on this week, much like what happened last Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, was not too hard to predict. Trump is melting, much like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. What’s strange is that Trump isn’t the first president to suffer this, it’s just that his case…

  Mark

  January 14, 2021

  Politics 2021

  Capitol attack, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, January 6, Malignant narcissism, Pardons, Richard Nixon

• Wednesday’s inflection point

  As I predicted on Sunday, Wednesday was a day of bedlam at the U.S. Capitol. Thousands of pro-Trump protestors, egged on by Trump at an earlier rally outside the White House, occupied and defaced the Capitol for several hours. Little was done to stop them, and even less was done to prepare for this predictable…

  Mark

  January 8, 2021

  Uncategorized

  2021, Capitol attack, Coups, Donald Trump, Insurrection, January 6