>From what I could see and put together, yesterday's riot was planned well in >advance and carried out with assistance from elements of the Capitol police, >who moved barricades to let the Trumpies in and posed for selfies with them >once they were inside. The planning may not have been brilliant, but this was >no spur-of-the-moment spontaneous incursion. It was led by people who knew >where they were going and what they wanted to do.
Whether this was helpful to theTrumpy cause remains to be seen. It looks as if Josh Hawley had his big moment of CSPAN drama rather spoiled, but since it's a dead certainty that he will suffer no serious penalty for his role in the matter, he can always slither around that and play the victim. The immediate intention, I suspect, was to prevent the vote certification from taking place at least for one day, pushing it off to he following day and providing Hawley with a chance to make another seditious speech before the CSPAN cameras. That was foiled. I don't think anybody behind this thing except possibly Trump seriously believed that Trump could parlay this thing into an actual coup d'etat. The intention IMO was to start a formal movement based on the newfound militancy and move on from the discarded and enshrined Trump. That could still happen. There are still Hawley, Cotton, Carlson, and Flynn. Will they continue the anarchist tendency of Trump? The question is how much actual fascist regimentation they can impose on the anti-fact, antinomian Trumpies. And that antinomianism is IMO an ideology--one that could create problems for a would-be Hitler, but in a way that would provide scant comfort to the socialist left. As to the long-term political effect, that remains to be seen. The whole thing can be remanufactured as rebel legend, and the fucking assholes that found themselves so deservedly dead (and good riddance, too, I say) will become martyrs. Of course. At this point, perhaps, we just don't know how the next act will play out. The inevitable slap on the wrist for the insurrectionists does IMO echo the Nazi rise to power in one way--these characters will probably all be free to pursue their schemes without any legal hindrance--in a way this is similar to HItler getting a slap on the wrist sentence after the putsch and coming out waving Mein Kampf with a whole new--and ultimately successful--strategy. The common element would a failing republic that can't muster the legitimacy to put down an insurrection or hold the line once it does. That still isn't Inevitable Fascism, but it's something to worry about--what happens next for that matter could actually be worse than fascism. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5258): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5258 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79487819/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
