Everyone’s Direct Action games
Tucker Carlson is busy showing footage of January 6 non-rioters to insist that no riot took place. It is a strange gambit. Understand, the baseline established reality is that a riot took place. Beyond that, things are open to a little bit of conjecture and a bit of interpretation on plausible and im-plausible deniability from figures of outgoing governance — namely the ex President. But the majority of the people there did not riot. And golly gee whillikers. We have this line before, complete with the mockery of “mostly peaceful” assemblages. And imagine this — most of the people at this event, laughable premise as it came off of, were not charged with anything and are at most suffering some bit of social stigma from involving themselves in a cause of ridiculousness. Though, I guess, some aren’t. Red state / Blue state and all that. But others aren’t. The ones who stormed into the Speaker’s office and gazelles at the House chamber, for instance.
Carlson continues privately castigating Trump’s lies on the election. Sure, there is easy delineation of coming to the defense of “peaceful protesters” and the cause. But the troubles come in that was not his public stance, so the latest brouhaha just becomes part and parcel to the whole spiel.