Each single day that President Donald Trump is in workplace comes with a brand new try and rewrite America’s historical past, often in a manner that promotes fictional anti-white oppression and pretends factual systemic racism in opposition to Black individuals is nearly nonexistent.
White conservatives have framed their anti-DEI warfare as a struggle in opposition to anti-white racism when it’s truly a furtherance of white supremacy that denies America’s overwhelming historical past of racism, which is why range initiatives are essential within the first place. Their warfare in opposition to vital race concept — an educational framework for analyzing systemic racism that has existed in increased schooling for the reason that late ’80s however was simply found by the MAGA world in 2020 — is framed as an effort to cease educators from educating that white individuals are inherently racist (which CRT doesn’t educate) when their anti-CRT warfare is definitely only a struggle to guard white individuals’s emotions from the reality about their beloved America.
Trump is even out right here attempting to rewrite current historical past, and if journalists, documentarians and precise historians refuse to verify his alternate details, then he’ll rewrite historical past by way of government order. And that’s why Trump is presently out right here toying round with the thought of paying reparations to Jan. 6 convicts.
From Politico:
Talking to Newsmax on Tuesday night time, Trump mentioned he had taken “care” of his supporters who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss and added there’s “discuss” about compensating them.
“Quite a lot of the individuals which might be within the authorities now discuss it as a result of a variety of the individuals in authorities actually like that group of individuals,” he mentioned, referring to the Jan. 6 defendants, who he described as protesting “peacefully and patriotically.”
A number of the freed Jan. 6 rioters and their advocates, similar to Ed Martin, whom Trump appointed to be the highest federal prosecutor in Washington, have lengthy referred to as for monetary reparations for individuals who took half within the Capitol assault, lots of whom subsequently frolicked behind bars.
Sure, Trump, as a result of the Republican Celebration now dominates each chambers of Congress and the chief workplace, there are “lots of people within the authorities” who’re so hypocritical and, by their definition, un-American, that they’d take into account paying restitution to home terrorists who attacked cops and tried to upend democracy and the U.S. Constituiton just because these terrorists frolicked in jail the place they belonged. However that doesn’t make it proper, authorized, sensible or ethical, and it actually wouldn’t be a present of patriotism.
Let’s be actual about one factor, although: none of this has something to do with supporting the Jan. 6 convicts — it’s about reframing what Jan. 6 was completely.
However earlier than we get into all that, let me level to a factor I wrote after Trump’s first time period concerning the “massive lie” that set Jan. 6 in movement within the first place:
I’m undecided we discuss sufficient concerning the sheer ridiculousness of what Donald Trump tried to tug off on the finish of the “South Park” outtake episode that was his abysmal presidency. I imply, we discuss how legal it was, and the way shameful, however I don’t know if we’ve ever collectively sat down to understand the absurdity of all of it.
Give it some thought: Within the twenty first century, a sitting president of the US responded to shedding his bid for reelection by throwing an prolonged and really public mood tantrum and embarking on presumably essentially the most clear propaganda marketing campaign in trendy politics.
The concept the election had been rigged — that voting machines had been programmed to abracadabra Trump votes into Biden votes; that useless individuals have been being registered to vote blue in plenty the dimensions of zombie herds from The Strolling Useless — was allowed to persevere even though it had no validity.
Dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Courtroom joined the former head of election cybersecurity, Trump’s personal lawyer normal and the Division of Justice in saying clearly and unmistakably that there was no proof of a rigged election.
So, that’s not a historical past that may be taught in truth if Trump needs to cement himself as one in all America’s best presidents. Trump can’t have historical past remembering him because the bumbling commander-in-chief who responded to shedding an election by launching a propaganda marketing campaign that finally impressed criminals to assault the U.S. Capitol, bodily assault cops and try and forcefully overturn a authorized and honest election. A president like that would definitely be remembered by goal historians as one in all America’s worst, not finest.
Trump must rewrite that historical past, which is why he unilaterally pardoned or commuted the sentences of greater than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, and it’s why he has to repeat as usually as doable that these writers have been truly protesters who behaved “peacefully and patriotically.” Once more, he didn’t free the Jan. 6 prisoners for his or her profit, he freed them as a result of their freedom, in his thoughts, legitimizes what they did and, by extension, what he did.
Hell, Trump nonetheless claims to this present day that the 2020 election was rigged in opposition to him even though he has by no means offered a single shred of proof that it occurred. They are saying historical past is written by the victors. Nicely, on this case, historical past is being rewritten by the losers who’re even rewriting the half the place they misplaced.
Whereas floating across the concept of Jan. 6 reparations, Trump even tried to rewrite the story of Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was shot and killed by a Capitol Lt. Michael Byrd as she tried to climb by way of a shattered window into the Speaker’s Foyer.
Trump, who seems to be fully unaware that the taking pictures was captured on Capitol safety cameras, instructed a special model of the story that actually made use of creative liberty. (That’s my overly well mannered manner of claiming he lied out of the butthole in the midst of his face.)
“Ashli Babbitt was a extremely good one who was an enormous MAGA fan, Trump fan, and she or he was innocently standing there — they even say attempting to type of maintain again the group — and a person did one thing to her that was unthinkable when he shot her.”
Once more, there have been cameras there. These cameras captured Babbit making an attempt to climb by way of a window and getting herself shot by an officer who had warned her to cease. She wasn’t simply standing there, and she or he actually wasn’t attempting to carry again the group.
The reality doesn’t want an editor. Trump is attempting to show his lies into historic truth on EO at a time. We will’t let him try this.
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