The Jan. 6 Committee Should Keep Calling It an Attempted Coup

[marmar]

The Jan. 6 Committee Should Keep Calling It an Attempted Coup
Analysis by Timothy L. O'Brien | Bloomberg


When a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, several people died and scores were injured, including some 140 police officers. Windows were smashed. Desks were overturned. Feces were smeared on the Capitol’s walls.

But the attack wasn’t just a depraved and violent episode: It also required the evacuation of the Capitol, disrupting the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. It was an insurrection, part of a much broader and sustained assault on democracy, months in the making, that represents the most serious domestic threat to America since the Civil War.

In other words: It was an attempted coup. When the bipartisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack takes its proceedings to prime-time TV tonight, it needs to hammer home this essential truth.

Democracy, not partisan politics, is what’s at stake. An airing of what the committee has learned won’t interest or sway always-Trumpers who have displayed little interest in democracy anyhow. But a focused narrative that establishes how far-reaching the coup attempt was, and who led it, will remind Justice Department prosecutors of the work they still have to do — and challenge voters to stand up for democratic values. ..............(more)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-jan-6-committee-should-keep-calling-it-an-attempted-coup/2022/06/09/1d94a94e-e7e4-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html

[BlueIdaho]

1. It was nothing less than a desperate attempted overthrow

Of the US constitution by a failed President and his henchmen. They should all swing for their crime.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This was an attempted coup

Calling something by its correct name should not be controversial