Yes, Trump is to Blame for Wednesday. But so is the entire GOP.
- Jan 8, 2021
- 6 min read
Never before have I been so sad to be an American as Wednesday. Watching these last four years under Trump and the inevitability of something like what happened Wednesday actually happening was heartbreaking to watch. Our seat of government ransacked by a mob of ignorant Trump supporters acting like tourists on a holiday. The Confederate flag, a literal flag of an insurrectionist Nation, flying through the halls and celebrated as somehow the “real” America.
The saddest part of all this is, I can’t even 100% blame these people. They are completely ignorant and small and their zealous support to their god emperor belittles them, but him and other representatives of our nation were the ones that have primed them for decades now for this very moment. Fox News, Republicans in the GOP, Trump and his cabinet and family, all have spent four years and longer riling up these people with constant lies and deceit for political gain, and Wednesday was the culmination of it all.
Yes, the people protesting and storming the capital on Wednesday deserve to face consequences for their actions. They are not blameless for this. Being swept up by conspiracies and lies is no excuse. But I can’t sit here and say with a straight face that if the situation was different, that I wouldn’t be right there with them. And that’s what is most heartbreaking for me. Our great country was founded on revolt and revolution. The right to protest is baked in our constitution and I am a firm believer that to get what you want in this day and age of absolute paralysis of action and corruption in our government, you may need to do more than fill out the proper permits and to have a nice picnic on a Saturday and march only in your respective legally allowed lines.
If we only did that, then we would still be a part of the British Empire today. Or at the very least, African Americans wouldn’t be able to sit at the front of the bus. I don’t believe you should ever engage in violence to achieve your goals, but we cannot whitewash our history and assume all protests that actually achieved their goals were ever simply in the bounds of the law at all times. Women’s rights, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, all had protests that were viewed as wildly disruptive for their times.
If, say, a slightly different situation unfolded after this election. If, for instance, Trump lost narrowly in only one state like PA or Georgia. And then lets say that Trump managed to successfully pressure the electors or say his hour long phone call to GA secretary of state to “find the votes” worked,
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and suddenly he managed to steal an election with no evidence backing him up, what then? This scenario really isn’t that unlikely. Trump only lost a few key states by a couple thousand votes, if it was only ONE state that ended up narrowly down, maybe GA Secretary of State or whoever had the ability to mess with the count would have had more incentive to do so if they were all it took to hand Trump a Presidency. It’s not like this hasn’t happened before in our recent history:
So, what do you do if somehow this came to pass and the Republicans in the various institutions went along with it, holding Trump’s water as they have for these past four years. And we get to January 6th and the positions are reversed. The Democratic minority in the Senate is arguing, with a wealth of evidence, that the sole state that Trump managed to flip should not have been flipped. And Republicans are laughing all the way to the bank as they vote it in anyways. And we now have a stolen election and an illegitimate President. Do you peacefully march around the capital on a Saturday, when no one in Government is around or cares while our literal country is being taken over? I can’t say I would recommend storming the Capital, but I also can’t say with absolute honesty I would have been sad if it happened in this scenario.
And this is exactly what the Trump mob is being told, that there is a vast conspiracy to elect an illegitimate president and our entire country is at stake. They are being told this every single day from their representatives in the House and Senate, from all of their news sources on Fox, OAN, and dumpsters across the internet on Facebook, Qanon, Parlor, etc. And of course, constantly and incessantly by the President of the United States and his cohorts. The only difference here is that these claims are completely without merit in facts or reality.
Yes, Trump is the key galvanizer on this but I put the majority of the blame on the GOP. We cannot forget what they have done here in flirting with this disaster, and continue to do so. Literally, right after the Capital was overtaken by a mob of people living in an alternate reality where Trump won the Presidency, Congress reconvened and 147 Representatives stood there overnight and continued to argue the very same lies that the mob believed. That the election was fraudulent in key states, but only for the Presidential ticket mind you, not THEIR seats, and that Trump should have won. This insanity cannot be understated. We currently have 147 Representatives in the US congress who are saying that we did not have a free and fair election in this country, and that Biden’s Presidency is illegitimate, with absolutely no basis in facts or evidence. I blame these people more than I blame that mob. These representatives are knowingly spilling lies out of their mouths just for political and personal benefit and are as much a threat to our nation, if not more so than the outgoing Trump administration. These are their names. Remember them. Remember the traitors to our nation who still sit in government this very day and had the gall to spread their lies immediately after being forced to run and hide from a mob who agrees with every word they say as they stormed the very seat of our Democracy.
United States Senate
Josh Hawley (R-MO) Ted Cruz (R-TX) Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
John Kennedy (R-LA) Roger Marshall (R-KS) Rick Scott (R-FL) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
United States House of Representatives
Robert Aderholt (R-AL) Rick Allen (R-GA) Jodey Arrington (R-TX) Brian Babin (R-TX)
Jim Baird (R-IN) Jim Banks (R-IN) Cliff Bentz (R-OR) Jack Bergman (R-MI)
Stephanie Bice (R-OK) Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Dan Bishop (R-NC) Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
Mike Bost (R-IL) Mo Brooks (R-AL) Ted Budd (R-NC) Tim Burchett (R-TN)
Michael Burgess (R-TX) Ken Calvert (R-CA) Kat Cammack (R-FL)
Jerry Carl (R-AL) Earl Carter (R-GA) John Carter (R-TX)
Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) Steve Chabot (R-OH) Ben Cline (R-VA)
Michael Cloud (R-TX) Andrew Clyde (R-GA) Tom Cole (R-OK)
Rick Crawford (R-AR) Warren Davidson (R-OH) Scott DesJarlais (R-TN)
Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) Byron Donalds (R-FL) Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
Neal Dunn (R-FL) Ron Estes (R-KS) Pat Fallon (R-TX)
Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI)
Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) Virginia Foxx (R-NC) C. Scott Franklin (R-FL)
Russ Fulcher (R-ID) Matt Gaetz (R-FL) Mike Garcia (R-CA)
Bob Gibbs (R-OH) Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Bob Good (R-VA) Lance Gooden (R-TX) Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
Sam Graves (R-MO) Mark Green (R-TN) Marjorie Greene (R-GA)
Morgan Griffith (R-VA) Michael Guest (R-MS) Jim Hagedorn (R-MN)
Andy Harris (R-MD) Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
Kevin Hern (R-OK) Yvette Herrell (R-NM) Jody Hice (R-GA)
Clay Higgins (R-LA) Richard Hudson (R-NC) Darrell Issa (R-CA)
Ronny Jackson (R-TX) Chris Jacobs (R-NY) Mike Johnson (R-LA)
Bill Johnson (R-OH) Jim Jordan (R-OH) John Joyce (R-PA)
Fred Keller (R-PA) Trent Kelly (R-MS) Mike Kelly (R-PA)
David Kustoff (R-TN) Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Jake LaTurner (R-KS) Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) Billy Long (R-MO)
Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) Frank Lucas (R-OK) Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)
Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) Tracey Mann (R-KS) Brian Mast (R-FL)
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Lisa McClain (R-MI) Daniel Meuser (R-PA)
Mary Miller (R-IL) Carol Miller (R-WV) Alexander Mooney (R-WV)
Barry Moore (R-AL) Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) Greg Murphy (R-NC)
Troy Nehls (R-TX) Ralph Norman (R-SC) Devin Nunes (R-CA)
Jay Obernolte (R-CA) Burgess Owens (R-UT) Steven Palazzo (R-MS)
Gary Palmer (R-AL) Greg Pence (R-IN) Scott Perry (R-PA)
August Pfluger (R-TX) Bill Posey (R-FL) Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
Tom Rice (R-SC) Mike Rogers (R-AL) Harold Rogers (R-KY)
John Rose (R-TN) Matthew Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT)
David Rouzer (R-NC) John Rutherford (R-FL) Steve Scalise (R-LA)
David Schweikert (R-AZ) Pete Sessions (R-TX) Jason Smith (R-MO)
Adrian Smith (R-NE) Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
W. Gregory Steube (R-FL) Chris Stewart (R-UT) Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
Thomas Tiffany (R-WI) William Timmons IV (R-SC) Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ)
Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) Tim Walberg (R-MI) Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
Randy Weber, Sr. (R-TX) Daniel Webster (R-FL) Roger Williams (R-TX)
Joe Wilson (R-SC) Robert Wittman (R-VA) Ron Wright (R-TX)
Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
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