Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The year began in dramatic and tragic fashion, with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Capitol police officers proved themselves heroic, particularly Officer Eugene Goodman, who brilliantly diverted the mob away from the chamber where U.S. Senators were holed up. “In short, he tricked them,” Randolph Sturdivant of WUSA-TV put it, “willingly becoming the rabbit to their wolf pack, pulling them away from the chambers where armed officers were waiting, avoiding tragedy and saving lives. Lives which include their own.” As captured on another video, Goodman also led Sen. Mitt Romney (a hero from last year’s list) to safety. It’s hard to imagine what would have happened if Goodman and his colleagues weren’t on the job that day.
Despite what some may contend, Capitol rioters weren’t there for a picnic. They were chanting “Hang Mike Pence” because, despite enormous pressure (and after consulting with former Vice President Dan Quayle), the vice president determined his oath to support and defend the Constitution superseded his loyalty to Donald Trump. It’s easy to say that Pence could not have blocked the certification of Joe Biden, even if he had wanted to—that he did not have the legal authority to refuse to certify the election (and to send it back to the states)— but we can all be grateful we didn’t have to watch that play out. “It would have been chaos,”
Pence is an imperfect hero who obsequiously enabled Trump for years. But under immense pressure from the president of the United States, who specifically used his perch to weaponize a mob against him, he rose to the occasion.
While attempting to purge Republicans like Cheney and Kinzinger, Trump and his minions are also attempting to rewrite history. As part of the effort to whitewash Jan. 6, Fox Nation (Fox News’ paid subscription service) recently aired a “Patriot Purge” documentary, suggesting that, as PolitiFact put it, “the siege may have been a trap orchestrated by the FBI.” Two Fox News contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, the co-founders of the conservative website The Dispatch, responded heroically by resigning in protest. This was a major sacrifice, both in terms of exposure (although the duo hadn’t received as much air time of late) and their personal income. It’s rare to find anyone who has voluntarily walked away from a cable news contributorship.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...roes-of-another-dumpster-fire-year/ar-AAS87PJ
Despite what some may contend, Capitol rioters weren’t there for a picnic. They were chanting “Hang Mike Pence” because, despite enormous pressure (and after consulting with former Vice President Dan Quayle), the vice president determined his oath to support and defend the Constitution superseded his loyalty to Donald Trump. It’s easy to say that Pence could not have blocked the certification of Joe Biden, even if he had wanted to—that he did not have the legal authority to refuse to certify the election (and to send it back to the states)— but we can all be grateful we didn’t have to watch that play out. “It would have been chaos,”
Pence is an imperfect hero who obsequiously enabled Trump for years. But under immense pressure from the president of the United States, who specifically used his perch to weaponize a mob against him, he rose to the occasion.
While attempting to purge Republicans like Cheney and Kinzinger, Trump and his minions are also attempting to rewrite history. As part of the effort to whitewash Jan. 6, Fox Nation (Fox News’ paid subscription service) recently aired a “Patriot Purge” documentary, suggesting that, as PolitiFact put it, “the siege may have been a trap orchestrated by the FBI.” Two Fox News contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, the co-founders of the conservative website The Dispatch, responded heroically by resigning in protest. This was a major sacrifice, both in terms of exposure (although the duo hadn’t received as much air time of late) and their personal income. It’s rare to find anyone who has voluntarily walked away from a cable news contributorship.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...roes-of-another-dumpster-fire-year/ar-AAS87PJ
