This article explores the implications of Donald Trump's confirmation as the 47th president, two weeks before his inauguration, on January 6th, 2021. It argues that the peaceful transfer of power, while celebrated, masks the continued threat posed by Trump's attempts to overturn the election and highlights the complacency of voters who didn't strongly engage with the democratic process.
Mother Nature threw inch after inch of wet, heavy snow on Washington, D.C. Monday, but this Jan. 6 hellstorm wasn’t enough to derail, hailed the peaceful transfer of power vote as a win for democracy. But the reality is that the man who attempted a coup against the United States never stopped, and our weakness allowed him to regain power. Don’t pretend the bitter truth of Jan. 6, 2021 is anything else.Monday brought a pivot point in America’s 248-year history disguised as a soporific non-event.
Podhorzer argued convincingly in an essay on Medium that “the results are best understood as a vote of no confidence in Democrats, not an embrace of Trump or MAGA.” This political analyst then brings the receipts, showing that the “red shift” of precincts towards Trump wasn’t because the tainted GOP nominee gained support, but rather the result of the drop in Democratic, or anti-Trump, turnout from the surge that Biden saw in 2020.
And yet the Democratic Party under Biden, and then Harris, could not do this. Instead, the vice president devoted far too much energy in raisingfor ads that ran on 6 p.m. newscasts that these alienated voters would never watch.
📮 This week’s question: The 119th Congress is sworn in, and the first job is confirming Team Trump’s whackadoodle slate of cabinet nominations.
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