Mr. Trump was very clear on January 6th about proceeding to the Capitol to engage in a peaceful and patriotic protest. Whether you believe what followed resulted from planted federal agents inciting the crowd or just the crowd, it hardly matters. Nothing about it was an Insurrection, but since Democrats insist, let’s play along.
For a moment.
Colorado’s highest court has declared that it can prohibit Mr. Trump’s appearance on the primary ballot for encouraging (or not preventing) the so-called Insurrection. The perception, real or imagined, of support was enough for them. No conviction, no indictment, just their feelings. Fine. I have feelings, and it felt to me like the coordinated BLM-Antifa-George Floyd “protests” were an insurrection. We had arson, assault, rape, murder – billions in property damage and some of the mostly- peaceful protesters most definitely attacked government buildings and even seized them. Took control. Set up autonomous collectives run by warlords in the surrounding neighborhoods separate from US law or political influence.
That was a lot more Insurrection than J6, and there’s no mystery about how Democrat politicians felt. Black businesses were looted and destroyed, as were more than a few black lives, but few, if any, Democrats failed to encourage and endorse protest openly. They even marched in copycat parades with shirts and signs, some with similar violence, many with less. But a solidarity of purpose led to or comforted violence everywhere it occurred.
Calls to stop the violence, what of it there was, were hardly more robust than Mr. Trump’s call to protest peacefully in advance. And if that’s a dog whistle to justify violence, then yours was a lot louder and more frequent, spanning months instead of just a few hours in the US Capitol, where Capitol police escorted the “protesters” and even offered directions to various parts of the building.
In New Hampshire, I don’t think we can find a Democrat in or out of elected office – at any level – who refused to pantomime the Black Lives Matter chants or its activities. They tolerated the silence is violence crowd, advocating compelled speech and mob justice, and many shared those videos on Twitter and Facebook. There was implicit and explicit support… in the name of extraconstitutional justice.
If a state can excise candidates for Federal office from ballots for even a fleeting association with some less than (though mostly) peaceful event, New Hampshire should remove all the Democrats for Congress from its Nov. 2024 Ballot. Nothing was fleeting about their support for Black Lives Matter or the chaos and carnage that followed its supporters. They set the country on fire.
So, get on with it then. Off the ballot! It shouldn’t even be a bother. Look at how excited those same Democrats are about write-in campaigns for that Biden fellow who should be off the ballot as well – in November, which has a nice symmetry with his absence from the New Hampshire Primary Ballot.
