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Police chief steps down as questions mount over security failure
Police trying to push back rioters as they stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Many, including President-elect Joe Biden, noted the difference in response compared with Black Lives Matter marches.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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Megan Palin
7 Jan 2021, 8:17
DONALD Trump s top National Security officials are reportedly considering quitting after the President is said to have resisted deploying the National Guard to Capitol Hill during Wednesday s deadly riots.
s that the decision to deploy troops to relieve besieged Capitol cops during the riot was made by VP Mike Pence.
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National Guard troops clear a street from rioters outside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.Credit: AFP or licensors
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Mike Pence is under pressure to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.Credit: Handout - Getty
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Donald Trump speaks during a retreat with Republican lawmakers at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, January 6, 2018.Credit: AFP - Getty
Douglas Andrews
Two things occurred to our editorial team as we watched things spin out of control at the Capitol yesterday afternoon: First, we knew this would be one of those few-in-a-lifetime days that we remember because of its uniqueness and its gravity â a day like 9/11 or the day of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. And second, we wondered whether those Central American refugees amassing at our southern border would scratch their heads, turn around, and head back home.
Admittedly, a third thing also occurred to us: What a mess our country seems to be right now.
Searching for some honor and decency amid the rubble that was January 6, 2021, we came across these simple words from Vice President Mike Pence: âItâs my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.â
The concept of a âwokeâ culture is no longer just something being pushed on television, in academia, and in social media. We now live in an age where the woke ideals of the Left â focusing all our social, economic, and political energies on race, gender, and sexual preference â are becoming the norm. It would offer some comfort to think that the self-loathing, white-guilt, historically and socially ignorant movement that has emerged in recent years was just a passing fad, but that doesnât seem to be the case. Woke culture is on the march, and its goal is nothing short of subversion of the American way of life.