Garcia: The lesson of Jan. 6: Confront sedition or accept it as the new normal
Body-camera footage of the mob incited by President Donald Trump attacking Capitol Police plays during the first public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 9, 2022. The first night of the hearings was serious public service, but it told an engrossing story with the tools of a limited series drama. A Democratic president loses his re-election bid to a Republican challenger.
This Democratic president makes attempts to convince the Defense Department, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to confiscate voting machines in key counties where the results weren’t to the president’s liking. When the vice president refuses to go along with the election-overthrow plan, an angry mob calls for the hanging of the vice president. In the Oval Office, the president tells his confidantes that the mob has the right idea.
In this era of rabid tribalism, it might seem quaint to talk about the rule of law and the need to put country over party. But I’ll take quaint any day over seditious. Edwards recalled slipping on the blood of her fellow officers as she tried to walk outside the Capitol.
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