In the trumpists’ alternative universe, another insurrection remains in plain sight and the enablers and fellow travelers are still viable. There’s still an audience for it, even if it’s badly disinformed by Greg Gutfeld.
Intelligence officers had a huge amount of information about a planned attack because the insurrectionists were openly talking about it online and in great detail. But despite this, intelligence officials deemed the likelihood of an attack as "remote" and "improbable," choosing instead to ignore right-wing militia types openly sharing maps and strategies for storming the building. There are a lot of theories as to why Capitol intelligence simply didn't take the insurrectionists seriously, but it really may be as simple as this: Hiding in plain sight works — at least when it comes to white conservatives with terroristic inclinations.
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Although it’s true that other platforms hosted discussion among the organizers of the insurrection, we have only Facebook’s word that the “Stop the Steal” groups and event pages that proliferated on its site played a lesser role. Yet Mark Zuckerberg’s own justification for suspending Trump’s account, posted January 7, stated quite plainly that the platform had been used “to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.” Facebook did not return a request for comment about the discrepancy between this sentiment and the argument presented in today’s announcement.
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On Fox News’ The Five last week, co-host Greg Gutfeld “joked” about Vladimir Putin assassinating President Joe Biden. HAHA, so funny, right? The topic of discussion was the Russian cyber attacks against the US. As usual the topic quickly morphed into an attack on climate change and on Biden.
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How quickly they forget that the Russian cyberattacks happened while Trump was still in office.
“I gotta disagree, if he holds firm you know, there’s going to be something we can get out of this. There’s going to be something if Putin decides to have them killed (Gutfeld gives a thumbs up) that’s something. You know? It’s possible,” Gutfeld replied. Fox News then immediately cut to commercial.
How long will it be before openly calling for the assassination of President Biden will become the norm? Can you imagine the Republican reactions if Rachel Maddow hoped Vladimir Putin would do the same to Donald Trump and his envoy? It would be covered on Fox News 24/7. And this happened a week ago and it barely got any coverage whatsoever?
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And previous guy has some imitators.
On the one hand we see a former president, who had to shut down his blog because so few people were reading it, standing "mostly alone," overseeing a "ragtag" political operation. He's unpopular; he's facing multiple investigations; and he's been reduced to muttering absurdities about being "reinstated" to power based on bonkers conspiracy theories and an ignorance about American civics. The phrase "how the mighty have fallen" keeps coming to mind.
On the other hand, we see that same former president leading a major political party, wielding considerable power over the GOP's direction and priorities, and preparing for a possible third national campaign.
Republican officeholders fear his wrath; Republican candidates eagerly kiss his ring; and Republican officials at every level of government scramble to stay in his good graces.
It's an increasingly bizarre dynamic, but it's one the GOP appears reluctant to abandon.
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