The Left loves our violence. They love their own violence too, but they savor violence from us. They feast on it.
Why did Trump give them something to feast on yesterday? Maybe its the only option at this point, to provoke the righteous crackdown from the incoming administration and both political parties, who want to see Trump destroyed and his followers dispersed. Now there will be no pretending that they aren't out to wipe us out. They will make no bones about their intentions. No one will be allowed to think they have good intentions towards us. They never did.
The Left has no one but themselves to blame for yesterday's violence. In 2016, they could have graciously accepted that they lost the Presidential election legitimately. They could have worked with Trump. The Democrats could have gotten amazing things passed with his signature during the last four years. Instead they chose to freak out and lose their minds, collectively channeling the panic from the Inside-the-Beltway Establishment at losing control. They signed onto a maliciously false campaign through the media to bring down the Trump Presidency before it even started. They demonized his followers and called us all manner of insults, the worst kind, and falsely linked us to extremists who are truly violent.
Then when Trump defied all their expectations and sabotage and won re-election in a landslide, they decided enough was enough and that it was worth committing fraud on a massive scale to stop him from being re-elected. Now they have tasted the sweet intoxicating wine of the apparent success of their crime. They did it again in plain sight on Monday. They are realizing they have power beyond their expectations. They have so many scores to settle with that power. Like all criminals, they know they will be punished one day. They will seek to use their power widely and quickly.
The Left brought violence to the streets of almost every major city, and declared zones to be lawless and under their governmental control. Now they lick their chops at the idea that our side's violence in the Capitol, whatever it really was, justifies the fraud they committed, and all subsequent measures they will take against us.
And what violence was it, that our side supposedly did? Those who were breaking glass were booed and shouted down on the spot, exactly as you'd expect. Some who went inside did so because they thought the capital was open, as some State Capitols still are. As late 2004, I was able to sit in the Speaker's chair in the Idaho Statehouse just by wandering into the chamber. It was fun.
As for the U.S. Capitol, I remember when it was possible to walk up the steps and go inside the doors. It was that way in 1974, when we also walked into our Senator's office to get a pass to the Senate gallery, which we used, only to find out that they were on a lunch break. It felt so much an emblem of our freedom, to be able to do that.
Then in 1983 as a freshman in D.C. I was one of the last ordinary citizens to get to walk into the Capitol that way. I had gone down there one afternoon and strolled around. Shortly after that was the Capitol bombing, that happened during a Monday Night Football game that I was watching in the basement lounge of Healy Hall at Georgetown. The network cut from the football game to a live shot of the Capitol with smoke coming up out of it. It was surreal to think it was happening just outside, while I was watching it on television.
After that they put in security at the Capitol that kept people from just walking in. Then after 9/11, they put up a fence and restricted it to organized tours. You couldn't approach the building form the Mall anymore. You couldn't just climb the steps, enter the doors, and wander around anymore on your own, without a pass. You had to have a reason for being there. You couldn't linger as long as you wanted looking at the statuary and the Dome, and thinking of the people of designed and built it long ago.
We are going to have to stand together, those of us on our side. Maybe this is how it had to play out, for us to get the country back one day. God will provide that, I know.
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