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The aftershocks of the Jan. 6 insurrection to block Congressional certification of the U.S. Presidential election will reverberate for many years. In the short run, there may be additional efforts to violently disrupt President-elect Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20, in addition to domestic terrorism activities aimed at state and local governments and other institutions. Such concerns have re-focused public expectations that leadership across all major institutions, public and private, must take sustained actions to support democracy.
The Jan. 6 insurrection has transformed the nation’s political conversation and moved the support for democratic values to the top tier of advocacy. It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice.
Already a picture of the individuals, organizations, and institutions who lent their weight to the movement that stormed Congress has begun to emerge. Last year, the secretive and influential Council for National Policy (CNP), which author Anne Nelson describes as “connecting the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives,” called for state legislators in six swing states to reject Joe Biden’s election victory. CNP leaders were scheduled to speak at the rally on the morning of 6 January, where Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol.
Whitmire: Alabama’s Three Stooges. And Shemp.
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
There s a cost to come for electing such awful people to office. Left to right: Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Rep. Barry Moore, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and Rep. Mo Brooks.
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When I was a child before on-demand TV provided Sesame Street at all hours of all days you turned on the box and took what you could get.
I try to explain this to my son whenever we find ourselves in hotel rooms or in AirBnBs without Netflix or Amazon Prime. But rather than marvel at the modern wonder of video streaming, he looks back at me with pity in his eyes, and perhaps some concern that I might soon die of old age.
Described as a grass-roots uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol followed events planned by establishment Republicans and their activist allies.