Opinion | DeanObeidallah: Democrats continue to frame the events of Jan. 6 as an “insurrection.” A dangerous side effect is that the use of the word 'insurrection' has provided some Republicans with a chance to downplay dangers posed by the Capitol riot.
This is akin to members of Congress defending the terrorists involved in 9/11 just months after the attack. Of course, the unspoken reality is that if the Jan. 6 attackers were Muslim, Greene, Gosar and others like them would be screaming that all involved are terrorists and demanding they be fully prosecuted.
While politics is secondary, the lessons of the 2002 midterm election, the first after 9/11, are evidence that Bush and the GOP’s framing of Democrats as not being tough enough on terrorism likely helped them see unexpected success.slamming Senate Democrats who controlled that chamber as being “more interested in special interests in Washington, and not interested in the security of the American people.
In September 2002, Bush gave a speech slamming Senate Democrats as being “more interested in special interests in Washington, and not interested in the security of the American people.” The GOP was able to buck the tradition of the president’s party losing seats in the midterm election. Republicans actuallyBut this is not about politics. It’s about countering the GOP’s efforts to downplay and deny the threat posed by Jan. 6, which make us less safe as a nation. The danger to our democracy posed by those who waged the Jan. 6 terrorist attack is not over.
While Jan. 6 and 9/11 are not at all comparable in terms of loss of life or destruction, Jan. 6 poses a significant danger to the internal structure of our democracy. We saw Trump, then the president of the United States,
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