Despite the January 6th Capitol attack, Trump has regained political power, highlighting a concerning trend in American politics.
Trump , constrained in his first term by more establishment figures and done in politically by a pandemic that threw his unfitness into stark relief, has roared back into power. He did not win through the violence of January 6, much of which Americans witnessed with their own eyes. No, Trump won via popular referendum, because the majority of the voting public didn’t see the indelible stain of that day of it as a dealbreaker.
That reflects poorly on the country—and on a Democratic Party so lacking in imagination that it somehow couldn’t envision losing to a convicted felon who already beat them once. But it also speaks to the relentless MAGA messaging around the Capitol attack: Trump and his allies have spent four years trying to rewrite the history of the January 6 insurrection, and with his inauguration two weeks away, it’s clear that to some extent they have. “The American people,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the New York Times Sunday, “did not fall for the Left’s fear mongering over January 6th.” Corporations wanted to be counted out, too: Big business briefly turned a cold shoulder to the GOP, and for good reason: Most Americans in polls held Trump responsible for the Capitol attack, and more than half in a Pew poll said it would be better for the country if he were removed and replaced with Pence for the remainder of the term. Trump, it seemed, was at his lowest point politically. But the GOP, including some of the same lawmakers who could appreciate Trump's culpability, once again ran cover: Mitch McConnell, who said that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the insurrection during Trump’s second impeachment, wouldn’t go on vote to convict, because he believed Trump was “constitutionally not eligible for conviction” after leaving office. And so Trump entered Biden’s term in a kind of soft exile down in Mar-a-Lago, where began rebuilding his 2024 viability. Trump recasted January 6 as a “day of love”
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