This Wasn’t Trump’s Reichstag Fire. It Was His Beer Hall Putsch.
How the Biden administration handles the aftermath of the January 6 attempted coup will determine the future of fascism in America
A few days after an insurrectionist mob incited by Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, the picture of what truly happened is starting to take shape. Among the crowd of QAnon believers and Trump-cult followers were alt-right white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys and trained veterans. They brought zip ties, Molotov cocktails laced with styrofoam (homemade napalm), bombs, guns. The crowd erected a gallow, complete with its noose, in front of the building and stormed the halls chanting “Hang Mike Pence.”
The Vice-President wasn’t the only target. The equipment seen on video footage (the handcuffs/zip ties, most prominently) indicates that the terrorists were ready to take hostages and forcibly restrain them. It is frightening to imagine what these lunatics thought they would do to Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, Omar, and the rest of Congress had they been able to take hold of them.
The Capitol Police’s complicit behaviour towards the mob has raised questions about where their real loyalties lie. The absence of the National Guard and its deployment delays start to outline…
