The Far Right, Fizzling

THE BIG RIGHT WING protest at the capitol on Saturday, September 18 was a fizzle. There were more police officers and journalists in attendance than actual protestors, more people to control and report on the protest than protestors to control and report on.The number of people protesting the indictment and prosecution of the criminals who staged the insurrrection January 6 numbered about two hundred. The event was well and widely advertised well in advance - every far right crazy person on social media knew about it. Why then, the lack pf participants? The explanation being lamely offered by the mainstream conservative establishment, which wholeheartedly approved of the event, is that it was a set up, that the feds planned to swoop in and arrest these heroic champions of liberty, virtue, and Donald Trump's election fraud prevarication. That, of course, is nonsense, as nonsensical as the original insurrection itself and the big lie by Trump which precipitated it. What the low turnout clearly demonstrates is that support for Trump's election lie and for right wing terrrorism is broad and wide, but paper thin, few people being willling to atually put their bodies where their mouths are. Intelligent people realize that Trump's big lie and the embrace it has gotten from millions of his supporters is as phony as a three dollar bill. Good citizens recognize the January 6 insurrectionsts for the criminals they are, and that prosecuting their crimes against the United States is justice being done. Last Saturday's protest thus becomes a hollow exercise in futility, misguided cult members complaining about due process and proper justice, in support of wanton criminals, of which Trump was the leader and inciter in chief. How enthusiastic would you be about fighting for a cause which you know in your heart of hearsts is bogus, unjust, nothing but a fight for the unaccountability and impunity of people trying to overthrow the government of their own country? The September 18 reprobates simply lacked conviction, as do Trump supporters; hence, whereas they still believe Trump's big lie on teh surface, and pay lip service to it,, they don't believe it deep down, and are losing the will to fight for it. They are asking themselves, whether or not they admit it; "Is this really worth fighting for?" They know that their cause is a phony hoax, unworthy of real effort. That a misguided, malignant event like the September 18th gathering was even contemplated, much less actualized, is telling; that it was a complete flop even more telling. The Trump movement is irrevocably fading away into the dustbin of history, not with a bang, but with a whimper.