January 6 Insurrection was about White Power, not Republicans vs. Democrats
Another Major Media FAIL
Issue #784 The Choice, Thursday, January 9, 2025
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There has been a lot of commentary about how eerie it is that Trump was confirmed as the next President of the United States on January 6, the exact date four years ago when he led a violent insurrection against the United States because he refused to accept the fact that he lost the election to President Joe Biden.
There has also been a fair amount of commentary about the peaceful transition of power that took place this time, which is the way it is supposed to happen and has happened every single election throughout history until Trump and his mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Vice President Kamala Harris even said that this peaceful transition of power showed that our democracy still holds. However, some (myself included) questioned that statement since it is highly likely that we would have seen Insurrection II if Trump had lost again.
Not to mention the fact that Trump’s primary order of business once in office is to dismantle our democracy. You can’t really say that the democracy is holding up just fine when the only reason it isn’t in tatters yet is because the anti-Christ won the election and, therefore, decided not to throw another tantrum.
But what we also need to remember – and acknowledge – is that the Insurrection of 2021 wasn’t really about Republicans versus Democrats. After all, Trump’s mob threatened to hang Mike Pence, Trump’s own VP, because he wouldn’t play ball by refusing to certify the election. And Pence is definitely a Republican.
This was about the preservation of white power, based on the wholly irrational fear that white people have somehow become an endangered species in America. As Exhibit A, consider the prominence of the Confederate flag displayed during the riot, which was waved inside the Capitol building for the first time ever by a man named Kevin Seefried, who was convicted in February of 2023 on five charges stemming from his participation in the event, including obstruction of an official proceeding — the joint session of Congress that was working to certify the Electoral College vote that day. Seefried also used the flag to jab at a Black U.S. Capitol Police officer. Now, let’s see if he gets pardoned.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson has written extensively about this hyped-up far-right fear of white extermination on her Substack, and it is essential reading. Because history – even recent history like the insurrection that Trump now says wasn’t an insurrection but a “Day of Love” – is what gets set on fire in times like these. Because the truth of history doesn’t play ball, and it doesn’t play favorites, and that doesn’t work for Trump.
If we need an Exhibit B, consider the fact that this insurrection was 99.9% angry white people, none of whom were arrested at the scene of the crime – or even within city limits. Those who were finally arrested, like Seefried, had to be painfully tracked down across the country after the fact, one by one, to their point of origin based on photograph and video evidence collected from the riot. To my knowledge, there were no occurrences of white protesters being manhandled and beaten up -either at the riot or at the time of their arrest – in the same way as Black Lives Matter protesters or other protests featuring non-white people.
We can safely assume that if this had been an angry mob of Black Lives Matter protesters scaling those walls, we wouldn’t have had to worry about how to track them down afterward because they would have been exterminated on-site. The only reason the security forces got caught off guard was because they were far more prepared to stomp out angry Black people than white people.
Seeing that many enraged white people storming the Capitol threw all of their preconceived notions into a tizzy, and nobody knew what to do. Especially when they saw all those angry whites being stirred into a frenzy by the President of the United States.
MAGA is not a Republican organization, and Trump isn’t really a Republican. He is a deranged cult leader not unlike the deranged, self-professed Messiah Jim Jones, whose base couldn’t care less about what the Republican Party stands for any more than they care about the Constitution.
It doesn’t matter if there are more ‘moderate’ Republicans than MAGA so long as the moderates remain muzzled and in the closet as the tail continues to wag the dog.
As long as we tell ourselves we are battling the Republican Party, we are battling from a losing stance. We need to face the fact that the Republican Party is dead. What we are fighting is the latest strain of white nationalism and white supremacy that was never put to rest because there has never been a cure, just a temporary slumber.
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“MAGA is not a Republican organization, and Trump isn’t really a Republican.”
It’s hard to distinguish because there’s so much overlap but you are correct. Maga is at its core, a white supremacy org. Maga formed when Trump surged, which I pinpoint to be when he said he’d install a complete shutdown on Muslims entering the United States. I always felt the crowd went wild after that, and it only got worse.
I agree. We have to stop referring to the MAGA crowd, and even the Muskies, as Republicans. They have no intention of maintaining a republic, and they will remain in charge as long as the remaining Republicans let them.