With the midterms looming, you’d think the Democrats would deliver a campaign message of unity, economic growth, or defeating the coronavirus. Instead, they kicked off the year by likening up to half the country to the world’s worst terrorists with melodramatic speeches to commemorate the Capitol riots.
Vice President Kamala Harris: “Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them — where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. January 6th, 2021.”
President Joe Biden: “Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol a Confederate flag that symbolized the cause to destroy America, to rip us apart. Even during the Civil War, that never, ever happened.”
Yes, the Capitol riots were shameful, but so are these hyperbolic comparisons. If the actions on that day were as serious as they claim, where’s the proportionate response?
Why not charge a single one of the more than 725 and counting accused in connection with January 6 with insurrection, terrorism, or treason?
And why misrepresent the facts?
Why keep dissembling about the fact that cops were killed by protesters on January 6 when the only people to die were participants, only one of whom was killed—by a Capitol cop?
Then, when commemorating the event, they dishonestly insinuate Capitol cops who died over the last year were killed by protesters.
Why further inflate the number by including the death of a cop who was killed by a Nation of Islam follower months later?
Democracy did not hang in the balance because the likes of QAnon Shaman rushed the Capitol. This was not American Al-Qaeda.
What’s the point of making January 6 the Democrats’ opening statement to voters this year?
Harping on Jan. 6 distracts from the fact that in virtually every area, the Democrat agenda has failed — the draconian Chinese coronavirus response, inflation, the supply chain crisis, Afghanistan, the border, crime, censorship, cancellation and the rest of the woke anti-cultural revolution that they back.
The Capitol breach card is what the Democrats have. It’s all they have. They will play it as ruthlessly and shamelessly as they have to to hold on for dear political life.