Forgetting the Unforgettable

 THE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN CLOWN SH OW continues, better than ever. The Repubs are ready, willing, and able to investigate both the black Lives Matter movement and the January 6 Capitol insurrection, but entirely unwilling and unable to investigate the insurrection alone. To investigate the insurrection and only the insurrection would make the Republicans look very very bad, whereas throwing in BLM would distract somewhat from the insurrection, focus attention on left wing protesting and violence. Congressional republicans leaders McConnell and McCarthy, politicizing the vital issue of American national security. How petty, unpatriotic, and self serving. Actually, we are fortunate because thorough investigations into both have already for the most part been completed. It turns out that the Black Lives Matter protests of last summer were triggered by the murder on camera of George Floyd, and were underpinned by four hundred years of slavery and racism in America. Any questions? The insurrection was the inevitable result of president Trump's refusal to accept his defeat in the election, his lie that the election was stolen from him, the tragic fact that tens of millions of people embraced the big lie, and many of them became violent. Trump and the Republicans would much prefer that the country just go ahead and forget about the insurrection, but the country isn't going to do that.  Most congressional Republicans supported Trump pall along, and still do.  Most of them thought the insurrection on January 6 was a good idea, and still believe that. A congressional investigation of the events leading up to the insurrection will inevitably make conservatism in general and the Republican party and the Trump movement in particular in  look very bad. Trump is of course acting like this is all a conspiracy against him, and requiring all his followers to opposes the investigation. He told a violent mob to try to overthrow the government, and they did. The Republicans are confronted with the difficult situation of being largely loyal to an ex president who seems likely to encounter criminal charges and legal difficulties. They will have to decide whether its better to stick with Trump, or to move on without him. Either way, there will be much opposition within the party. The most frightening aspect of all this is that everyone who accepted Trump's big lie was partially responsible for the Capitol insurrection January 6, and, everyone who embraced the lie knew and knows it is a lie. Everyone who ransacked the Capitol considered themselves  heriocally patriotic,  working for Trump, eighty million voters, truth, justice, and the American way. All based on a lie, all of it. Presumably, everything the FBIU knows about the insurrection will be turned over to Congress, and to the Attorney General. It will be noteworthy that all of them did it for Trump, following his orders. The Republicans, many of whom believe the insurrection was justified, do not believe that investigating it is. That's a very interesting reflection upon their character and their current entrapped situation.