I see selective skepticism in the persistent efforts to find some little hidden factoid about 1/6 -- "Someone opened a door from inside!!" ... "What was Ray Epps doing and who sent him??" -- while dismissing a Himalayan range of evidence that Trump and his allies were trying to halt the peaceful, constitutional transfer of power.
Behind …
I see selective skepticism in the persistent efforts to find some little hidden factoid about 1/6 -- "Someone opened a door from inside!!" ... "What was Ray Epps doing and who sent him??" -- while dismissing a Himalayan range of evidence that Trump and his allies were trying to halt the peaceful, constitutional transfer of power.
Behind it, there's an element of "You've sometimes got to violate the Constitution in order to save the constitutional republic."
It goes along with selective patriotism: People who claim to love America more deeply than their domestic opponents also believe that U.S. institutions are so corrupt that they need to be blown up and replaced by new ones, run by people who agree with them.
And selective moral concern: People who lament the moral decay of America decided that the indispensable champion of their values was a sociopathic narcissist who defines right and wrong around ego and self-interest, and whose example encouraged the idea that moral judgment is something to be wielded against enemies, not something to apply to one's own side.
The amazing patriotism and love of country that the January 6 Trump mob had was for me best exemplified by the Trump supporter who climbed off a balcony of the Capitol building in order to remove an American flag and replace it with a Trump flag. I think that many of them think they that America equates to Trump.
I see selective skepticism in the persistent efforts to find some little hidden factoid about 1/6 -- "Someone opened a door from inside!!" ... "What was Ray Epps doing and who sent him??" -- while dismissing a Himalayan range of evidence that Trump and his allies were trying to halt the peaceful, constitutional transfer of power.
Behind it, there's an element of "You've sometimes got to violate the Constitution in order to save the constitutional republic."
It goes along with selective patriotism: People who claim to love America more deeply than their domestic opponents also believe that U.S. institutions are so corrupt that they need to be blown up and replaced by new ones, run by people who agree with them.
And selective moral concern: People who lament the moral decay of America decided that the indispensable champion of their values was a sociopathic narcissist who defines right and wrong around ego and self-interest, and whose example encouraged the idea that moral judgment is something to be wielded against enemies, not something to apply to one's own side.
Selective patriotism and moral concern - really well put!
The amazing patriotism and love of country that the January 6 Trump mob had was for me best exemplified by the Trump supporter who climbed off a balcony of the Capitol building in order to remove an American flag and replace it with a Trump flag. I think that many of them think they that America equates to Trump.
That act sickened me.