IT IS SOMEWHAT COMFORTING to know that the U.S. Capitol building is being protected from further attacks by Trump supporters by new fencing and national Guard. Discomforting is the knowledge that many Trump supporters still exist, are at large, are violent by nature, and are inclined to gather together in angry mobs,usually in churches, and to embrace false realities and harmful beliefs in the fantasy world they inhabit. The Capitol building seems safe, but the rest of the country is undeniably in great danger, from Trump, and from his gangster-like supporters.Trump supporters, it is mildly consoling to know, can often be easily identified by their bright red MAG caps, fanatic facial expressions, (when not covered by a white hood), and their tendency to carry assault rifles rifles, confederates flags, swastikas, and Bibles. They are armed, with false piety and firearms, and considered dangerous. With regard to the emerging nonsensical argument that only the people who actually stormed the Capitol building are responsible for it, and that they were actually left wing radicals in disguise, one must bear in mind that Trump supporters are notorious for avoiding responsibility for their criminal behavior, as well as avoiding reality. That Trump is not responsible is an argument which belongs with Trump and his entire movement; in the dustbin of history. Here in the real world, which by definition precludes the views of people who support Trump, people influence the behavior of other people, constantly, everywhere. The real world excludes anyone who fails to recognize Trump and his supporters as anything other than criminals, and traitors. When the president of the United States holds a rally at which he passionately instructs his audience to go straight to the Capital building, without giving them further instructions other than to fight for him and to be "strong", and everyone at the rally cheers wildly in obvious agreement with and acceptance of the instructions, there exists a high degree of probability that the folks will become a mob, go to the capitol building, and do exactly what the mob did.Neither Trump nor his supporters can claim that this did not actually happen.They cannot claim that it was a hoax perpetrated by the media, or the left wing, or by China.It was all caught on tape, and has been seen by millions, if not billions, many times. And it guarantees that Trump will leave office in disgrace, will live in history in infamy, as will his tragically misguided supporters.
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