Making of a MAGA martyr

[struggle4progress]

By Talia Lavin
JULY 2, 2021

... Every revolution runs on myths, its own heroes and martyrs filling the hearts of adherents with grievance and a wish for revenge. For the attempted revolution of January 6, Babbitt is the most visible of these figures ...

Rioters who lived are also cultivating an air of righteous persecution — and the cash grab to go with it ... “Due to their history of conservative activism they have been defamed by the media and harassed by local far-left agitators. As a result of what appears to be a political prosecution they are now burdened with large legal expenses” ...

For $100, Richard “Bigo” Barnett of Gravette, Arkansas, is selling photographs of himself with his feet up on Pelosi’s desk ...

amid the commemorations of Ashli Babbitt’s life and death, and the bluster of January 6 defendants, there is one name that is hardly ever mentioned, if at all. The other woman who died that day was a Kennesaw, Georgia, resident named Rosanne Boyland — like Babbitt, in her mid-30s, white, a fervent believer in QAnon — but she has not become a similar rallying point for either recruitment or revenge. This, presumably, is owed to her manner of death: She was trampled by the crowd surging at the Capitol and seeking to overwhelm police lines ...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/ashli-babbitt-january-6-insurrection-maga-martyr.html

[Solly Mack]

1. Rosanne Boyland's death doesn't fit into their narrative. She has become incidental.

She simply doesn't matter to their cause.

[Maraya1969]

3. Isn't that amazing? Ashley Babbitt is a heroin and Rosanne Boyland is a footnote

Talk about a bunch of deplorables.

[Solly Mack]

5. They want to make Babbitt into their George Floyd, so to speak. No comparison, of course, but

that's not stopping them from trying.

Calling her an innocent victim. Claiming the CP shot without cause, without warning. Demanding to know the officer's name. Turning her into a martyr for the cause. She was just on a tour of the Capitol.

But all they are doing is exposing just how little they understand why the murder of George Floyd was wrong and why it sparked worldwide outrage. They don't understand why people marched in protest of George Floyd's murder. They don't want to know. Black man dead. No worries.

But that is the kind of momentum they are seeking with Babbitt's death. White woman dead - a rallying cry.

Poor brainwashed and dead Rosanne Boyland died at their hands and her own, so her death must never be openly acknowledged by them. To do so acknowledges their guilt. In their exultation and blood lust of storming the Capitol, they trampled one of their own to death.

Deplorables, indeed.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Ashli Babbitt - martyr killed by the Trump administration.

Ashli Babbitt - martyr killed by the Trump administration.

[Maraya1969]

4. I wonder how the judge is going to feel about these people making money off of their

felonies? I know they are still considered innocent but I also wonder this information will be allowed into the trial by the prosecution.