It’s about time the last one, Trump, is held accountable By Thom Hartmann (Reprinted from Medium.com, with permission from the author) Trump’s impeachment trial is coming up in the Senate, and already his allies are trying to throw up procedural roadblocks to exhaust the effort to hold him accountable. Should America “move beyond” Trump?…
There were two mobs behind the Capitol riot: One in MAGA hats, the other in expensive suits. Both did immense harm By DAVID DALEY The mob smashed windows then stormed into the U.S. Capitol. They brandished flags that supported Donald Trump and the confederacy, and messages that proclaimed “stop the steal” and “no more bullshit.” They…
By Max Cameron, University of British Columbia The storming of the United States Capitol may have failed to disrupt the certification of the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but it enacted a script favoured by coup-mongers around the world. All that was missing was the intervention of the armed forces. The inaction…
By Robert Reich Call me old-fashioned, but when the president of the United States encourages armed insurgents to breach the Capitol and threaten the physical safety of Congress, in order to remain in power, I call it an attempted coup. Last week’ rampage left five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer who was…
After right-wing terrorists stormed the US Capitol, apparently intent on assassinating Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress eventually returned to their chambers and the business of certifying the 2020 election results. Despite the harrowing experience of hiding for their lives from the Trump-incited attack, “two-thirds of House Republicans (139 members) favored rejecting at…