It’s only funny until you remember what is actually happening.
As we close in on the second anniversary of Jan. 6, it’s easy to fall prey to the idea that it was all a historical event, blessedly behind us. It’s even tempting to celebrate the dozens of ways in which the “system held.
cave in on itself for the second straight day, as a political party that can no longer make claims to be serious, or to have serious leadership, is left flopping on the beaches for the delectation of us all.Except of course the events of Jan 6, 2021 and Jan 3–? of 2023 are not at all unrelated. Nor are they sequential points along a continuum that is leading us to a better place.
Governance is not the point, it’s the enemy. Government is not the point, it’s the enemy. In 2021, that was on display in what we could all recognize as violence and threats of bodily harm. In 2023, it’s being done with speeches and backroom negotiations and the stand-up-sit-down whack a mole energy of a Monty Python sketch. Those chairs they are seeking? It’s not to do anything with them, beyond further themselves.
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