.MaddowBlog: It's as if fmr. President Trump was trying to make a potentially dangerous situation worse on purpose.
It led The Washington Post's Michael Gerson to note in,"There is ... no doubt that all Trump's thoughts and prayers are with the violent rioters of Jan. 6." Yesterday, the former president removed any ambiguity, becoming explicit in new and unsettling ways with this written statement:
Part of what makes a statement like this amazing is the rapid evolution in Trump's thinking. Eight months ago, he assured the public that he was"outraged" by the"heinous attack." The rioters would be held accountable for having"defiled the seat of American democracy." Their"assault," he said, would not be"tolerated." Now that so much of the Republican Party no longer believes any of this, Trump has dropped the pretense.
In practice, however, we're receiving a timely lesson in how the former president defines the phrase. As MSNBC's Chris Hayes wrote in a 2018for The New York Times,"If all that matters when it comes to 'law and order' is who is a friend and who is an enemy, and if friends are white and enemies are black or Latino or in the wrong party, then the rhetoric around crime and punishment stops being about justice and is merely about power and corruption.
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