Seems like a lot is being reserved for possible criminal proceedings down the line. No mention of the supposed tours that took place January 5, of the Capitol Police who were taking selfies with rioters, of the Squad being targeted (and Ayanna Pressley’s panic button claims), of Lauren Boebert’s tweets about Pelosi’s movements, of the pipe bombs, of the roles of Hawley & Cruz & co. in propagating the big lie ...
... I get that the trial needs to be narrowly focused on the one person currently on trial, but it is also true that there is a mountain of other stuff that needs to be addressed and publicly acknowledged at some point. I worry in particular about lionizing the Capitol Police when we *know* and saw with our own eyes that some strange stuff was going down with some of them on that day. If we can’t honestly discuss that, how are we ever going to have a real conversation about actual members of Congress abetting insurrectionists?
Joaquin Castro responded to a question yesterday about how the supporters of Trump have been radicalized in general, but he demurred from addressing that head on and discussed Trump’s language instead. Again, you don’t want to dilute your messaging and spread guilt around when you’re only prosecuting one guy, but the complete absence of an acknowledgement of the role of QAnon from this whole proceeding seems like a miss to me. Q shit played a huge role in getting a lot of these people to decide to be in DC on 1/6, and Trump’s failure to ever denounce Q was just as much of an incitement as his exhortations to fight.
