{"id":151570,"date":"2021-01-11T06:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-dismiss-dc-capitol-rioters-as-trumps-chumps-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-01-11T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:29:23","slug":"dont-dismiss-dc-capitol-rioters-as-trumps-chumps-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-dismiss-dc-capitol-rioters-as-trumps-chumps-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don\u2019t dismiss DC Capitol rioters as Trump\u2019s chumps : Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28856d7694f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28856d7694f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-dismiss-dc-capitol-rioters-as-trumps-chumps-devine\/#Fashion_disaster\" >Fashion disaster<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Don\u2019t dismiss DC Capitol rioters as Trump\u2019s chumps : Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/babbitt-sicknick.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>To properly understand the storming of Capitol Hill last Wednesday, you must empathize with those who died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not something that President-elect Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, or their vicious <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> boosters want to do. They want to eradicate the legacy of President Trump and crush his supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t erase 75 million people without destroying America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s start with Ashli Babbitt, 35, fatally shot by law enforcement as she tried to climb through a broken window into the Capitol building. She was a military veteran and struggling small-business owner, a Trump admirer who dutifully answered the president\u2019s call to fly across the country to support his doomed effort to overturn the election result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Babbitt had served in the pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like many of her generation, she came of age in the patriotic aftermath of 9\/11 and signed up with the Air Force straight out of high school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like many veterans she was disillusioned on her return to a nation which ignored their sacrifice and was busy shipping the jobs of the working class off to China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s America First rhetoric and rejection of needless foreign wars won her ardent support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister was 35 and served 14 years. To me, that\u2019s the majority of your conscious adult life,\u201d her brother Roger Witthoeft, 32, told the New York Times. \u201cIf you feel like you gave the majority of your life to your country and you\u2019re not being listened to, that is a hard pill to swallow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Babbitt succumbed to the madness of the crowd Wednesday and lost her life as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the opposing side of the mob that invaded Capitol Hill was police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, also a military veteran. Like Babbitt, he was a Trump supporter, and, like Babbitt, he had enlisted straight out of high school. He served with the National Guard in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Enduring Freedom and was upset about the lack of support for veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sicknick died in hospital the day after the riot, from injuries sustained \u201cwhile physically engaging with protesters,\u201d said Capitol Police. His death, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent suicide Saturday of another officer involved in the riot, shames armchair critics who have accused police of not doing enough to hold back the mob.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police that day were outnumbered and caught by surprise when people like them, who they expected would respect the law \u2014 military veterans, blue-collar workers, firefighters, state legislators \u2014 turned on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is rich irony in post facto laments about insufficient policing from Democrats who backed calls last year to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d glorified months of anti-cop protests, normalized violence and even named streets after the instigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden played along with the anti-cop rhetoric last summer, with slippery words about \u201credirecting\u201d police funding as punishment for \u201csystemic racism.\u201d He pretended Antifa was just an \u201cidea,\u201d rather than the jackbooted thugs we saw rampaging through the streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, when the worm had finally turned, and it was Trump supporters who were in the wrong, Biden transformed into a law-and-order hawk, blasting them as \u201cthugs,\u201d \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d and \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t dare call them protesters,\u201d he said, declaring the priority for his new attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> would be \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden thus set the stage for an authoritarian crackdown on the populist nationalist movement which propelled Trump to power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To drive home the point, he injected racial division into the powder keg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn\u2019t have been treated very, very differently,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just not true. On Wednesday, Capitol Police reacted with tear gas and deadly force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What marked last year\u2019s riots was the supine police reaction. The NYPD even kneeled in solidarity. On the few occasions Trump sent in federal reinforcements to quell the mayhem, he was maligned as a fascist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everyone understands what happen at Capitol Hill last week was terrible, but when you crack down on your ideological foes after condoning bad behavior from your own side, you lose all credibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, instead of turning down the heat, Biden and his party are proceeding with another spiteful impeachment and cheering on the social-media companies that have canceled the president\u2019s accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We know it\u2019s not just about punishing Trump, who will be gone before any vote gets to the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They want to humiliate and demoralize his supporters, the half of the country Biden dismissed during the campaign as \u201cchumps\u201d and \u201cugly folk.\u201d They want to crush the populist-nationalist movement which they see as a challenge to their power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They want to ideologically \u201ccleanse\u201d the nation, as Rick Klein, the political director at ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> put it in a tweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of Trump is the \u201ceasy part,\u201d he said. \u201cCleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a recipe for disaster. It only accelerates the alienation that delivered Trump to the White House in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has an opportunity to live up to his campaign promise of \u201cunity\u201d and stop the nation sliding into a cauldron of hatred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He should stop the impeachment and ensure that the Capitol Hill rioters receive punishment proportionate to that meted out to last year\u2019s BLM-Antifa culprits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, when you spent the summer cheering on the destruction of statues, and the trashing of American history and social norms, you can\u2019t pretend that the Capitol is some \u201csacred\u201d institution exempt from the vandalism you unleashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That kind of double standard only disenfranchises millions of Americans and pushes some to a place where they feel they have nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fashion_disaster\"><\/span>Fashion disaster<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One last kick out the door for the Trump family came from the upmarket magazines, which never deigned to put the fashion-plate former-model first lady on their covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u2019ve rushed to make Kamala Harris a cover girl before she even takes office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the gambit backfired on Vogue, with widespread condemnation of a grungy cover shot of the vice president-elect in black jeans and Converse sneakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hardly a glamour shot in keeping with the aspirational nature of the magazine. 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