It's a clear attempt to rewrite everything that happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack
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It won't stop when he's gone. Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
It has to start somewhere. With that attitude, why do anything?
Because it's a mistake to think that Trump is the root cause of the issue, and if you're putting your hopes into things changing for the better once he's gone, you'll be disappointed.
But you have to properly acknowledge the scope of the problem to start working on it effectively. This is a systemic issue, not an individual one.
I know and I believe we need to read up on history.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.
The founding fathers would agree. Much, much easier said than done, however.
"Cut off the head and two grow back"
Then just keep cutting. There aren't infinite heads.
And eventually the heads start to fear for their safety and stop poking out of their safe spaces.
Let's treat the symptom and see where we end up.
We "treated the symptom" in 2020 and you can see exactly where we ended up.
If he was thrown in jail after Jan 6 like a common criminal along with the rest of the mob, the Nazis would be all back in hiding now.
You're absolutely right but the previous president decided to wait four years to even charge him, after he'd already won the '24 Republican nomination, in order to pretend like he was taking action without risking actual consequences for Trump that might prevent him from winning the election for them.