Humbling the Proud Boys

THE FUHRER of the Proud Boys goes on trial today, for a variety of serious federal crimes whould ought properly to land him behind bars for a not inconsiderable length of time. These charges include attacking, invading, and ransacking the nation's Capitol building, trying to overthrow the government. The trial is expected to last about five weeks. The traitor should probably be convicted and either executed or incarcerated very long term. Obviously, all this stems from Trump, and his outrageous, horrible lie that he actually won reelection, but that the victory was stolen from him. It is difficult if not impossible to imagine or remember anything more harmful that any president has done or could possibly do to the United States. This is precisely why those who embrace Trump's big lie have done so much harm to the country, that they are truly traitors. Also on trial, suilty by association, is the Proud Boys organization and every member of it, America's far right wing movement, contemporary American conservatism, and the Republican party itself, home of all the above. Since something like two thirds of all registered Republcians stil isist that the election was stolen from Trump, and since about the same percentage still approves of the January 6th insurrection, the Repbulcaian party is arguably a terrorist organization. The Prud Boys engaged in a protracted, well planned project to gather at the Capitol January 6th, 2021, and try to prvent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the electoral college and election. Violence was very much part of their plan, and they used violence without hesitation. We also now know that Donald Trump and many of his close associates wored closely in cordination with several groups included in the plan to steal teh election from Biden and to keep Trump illegally a president for another term, and possbly for life. Trump was the ultimate leader, the driving force, and thus, the most guilty of thousands of guilty insurrectionists, and tens of millions more guilty of supporting them. Hundreds of insurrectionists have been convicted; now is the time to convict tens of millions of election deniers, the conservative movement, the Republican party, by relegating them to obscure memory.