Trumps Propagandasieg – Die Umschreibung vom 6. Januar: „Sie können Ihren eigenen Augen oder Donald Trumps Worten trauen – und viele Amerikaner entscheiden sich, ihm zu glauben.“

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– WASHINGTON — It took decades for defenders of the Confederacy to rewrite the history of the Civil War to recast Southern rebels’ treasonous attack against the United States as an act of honor and courage.

It took Donald Trump a mere fraction of that time to accomplish the same feat for his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.

In a mere four years, that day’s effort to end or, at the very least, suspend American democracy with a deadly assault on the Capitol, incited by Trump himself, has for a large swath of the country instead become a peaceful protest whose participants have been persecuted by Trump’s political opponents.

“What they have in common is that in both cases a story is propagated that a portion of the population wants to hear because it absolves them, or those in their in-group, of a transgression of not just the law, but of commonly held moral principles,” said Gabriel Reich, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who has studied how the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction is taught in schools.

“Liberal democracies really struggle with bad-faith actors who manipulate existing rules and norms to their own benefit,” he added.

Tom Joscelyn, a counterterrorism expert who served on the staff of the House Jan. 6 committee and was a co-author of its report, said he still finds it hard to believe that people could watch what happened that day unfold on television and then still accept Trump’s version of it. Unlike children growing up in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, for whom the Civil War was generations in the past, Trump’s followers and allies are rejecting readily available evidence of contemporary violence.

“All you need is the images and the videos from that day, his own words, and what you saw with your own eyes, and it was clear that he had crossed some bright lines,” he said. “All of that should have been disqualifying, and it wasn’t.”

Trump’s transition team did not respond to HuffPost queries. Even since his win in November, Trump has continued to lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from him and has described those who have been prosecuted for their actions on Jan. 6 as political prisoners.

“These people have been treated really, really badly,” he told Time magazine last month. “They’ve suffered greatly, and in many cases they should not have suffered.”

Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican political consultant in Florida, said he remembers as a child reading a plaque honoring dead Confederate soldiers in his town square. “That’s the way we grew up. That’s what we knew,” he said.

That Trump was able to revise his own history so quickly is a noteworthy achievement, he added.

“It is a tribute to Trump and his posse’s ability to convince half the country,” Stipanovich said. “And it is a telling indictment of the intelligence of that half of the country.”

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The only reason it works is the media goes along. By March they will be blaming democrats.

‘twice impeached insurrectionist’ is how i refer to him. my conservative fam rolls their eyes and waves their hands but they never, ever refute it, because its true and they cant. They are waiting for us to stop talking about it which I never will when discussing him

It was live on very major network and cable news! Gaslighting American public- morons!

There’s no cure for stupid. Just be aware that they exist, drive, vote, etc, and take necessary precautions.

Believe “him”. As if he didn’t have a coordinated network of hostile bad faith actors, true enemies of the constitution, festering all throughout our government in great number, and in key positions of power, to sidestep or mitigate all the legal consequences for a group of domestic terrorist and turncoats, fabricate a fucking cornucopia of falsehoods, distractions, and disinformation to willfully deceive and harm the citizens of the nation they only pretend to care about or work for.

What he did does disqualify him from holding office ever again. The Supreme Court is wholly compromised and they need to be treated like the fucking enemies of freedom and democracy they have chosen to be. Their opinions, rulings, and interpretations are garbage that merits no respect or consideration whatsoever.

As long as criminals are running the show no law has any real meaning or value. It is only a weapon about to be turned on us to potentially catastrophic effect, while they have plainly telegraphed they are increasingly outside, above, or beyond the reach laws or justice.

“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

The failure to hold people accountable, particularly the politicians that architected this, will be the greatest failure of any political party… ever.

Fuck the GOP but really and sincerely fuck the Dems for not – you know – reactive to a coup and insurrection as serious.

Fuck Kamala, Fuck Joe, Fuck the DOJ, corrupt as fuck.

Their silence isn’t heroic, it’s complicity and a total sell out of principles. I’m disgusted at them.

I saw with my own eyes, watched it unfold with Trump enjoying watching. I will NEVER EVER forget