IMPORTANT READS

TEST FOR DEMOCRACY--I still see the noose in front of the capitol building, dangling oh so metaphorically.

VIEW FROM HERE-In the bloody wake of an insurrection on the Capitol by hordes of armed white supremacists and naive Trump supporters, the President-elect issued the following statement on Twitter.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MAGA MARCHERS--When Donald Trump incited you to assault the Capitol, he said he would be with you.

He wasn’t.

SAVING DEMOCRACY-The answer to what happened in Washington last Wednesday is what happened in Georgia last Tuesday.

SEDITION--Whatever you want to call the violent assault in Washington on January 6, 2021—a mob action, a siege, a coup attempt, a riot, domestic terrorism, an insurrection—the fault clearly lies with the president.

POLITICS--“No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s [January 6^th] coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.”