Justin Glawe: January 6 was practice

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In today's edition of my newsletter, Where Do We Go From Here, I lay out all the ways in which right wing extremists have been continuing a soft insurrection since January 6, which was simply a failed practice run at overturning an election.

justinglawe.substack.com
January 6 was practice
Across the country, election deniers and pro-Trump extremists are laying the groundwork to overturn the results of future elections in support of their idol.
4:40 PM · Jun 16, 2022

https://justinglawe.substack.com/p/january-6-was-practice

Anyone who has cared to read factual reporting on the events of January 6 understands the point that a congressional committee has been making for the last two weeks: Donald Trump and his acolytes first spread lies about the 2020 election, then encouraged their supporters to act upon them in order to reinstate him as president.

But that is past. What the select committee simply doesn’t have time to cover is the larger — and what will become the more important — point to make about January 6: it was practice. A failed stunt to overturn the results of the election, Trump’s band of extremist zealots learned that their actions that day were too little, too late. And they have taken that lesson to heart.

This party-wide coalition of white supremacists, election deniers, Trump-worshiping wine moms, angry working class whites, ex-military and law enforcement, and past, current and would-be local elected officials failed to stop the certification on January 6. Instead, they simply learned that the next time they’ll have to secure a false victory in other ways.

What we’ve seen since that day is a slow-rolling insurrection being carried out in local government offices across the country. Insurrectionists have infiltrated every level of government — and are trying to infiltrate still more. They’re our next door neighbors, our mail ladies, the teller at the bank, tire shop owners, youth baseball coaches, plumbers and electricians. More importantly, they’re the leader of the neighborhood watch, our local alderman, our sheriff and beat cops. American life has always required that we live in harmony with those with whom we politically disagree. But since January 6 it now requires that we accept that we live alongside people who, if the right moment came, would enact violence upon us because of our political beliefs. The right argues this is a danger facing conservatives thanks to groups like antifa, but study after study have shown that it is the right that has a much higher proclivity for political violence. They also happen to be much more well-armed.

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1. Yes, we tend to forget all their less lethal sounding crap. In my neck of the woods these yahoos can

throw together a boat parade faster than they can cut the crust off their spam sandwich. Need a float for a Christmas parade?......the "------- Patriots" will be there. The neighborhood watch reference in the article is a prime example. My local watch group disbanded and went to "MeWe"or some such place because of the claimed "censorship" of Facebook. They also wanted information about members that I thought was unnecessary,supposedly to prevent spammers and some kind of dangerous criminals listening in or whatever. It was all bullshit imo. Just another way to streamline communications and weed out undesirables...liberals.