Four years after Jan. 6, pardons for rioters would be an insult -- and threat -- to Jews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Trump and the MAGA faithful have been trying to recast that mini-civil war as a "day of love."
52% : "Part of that mutation is the very Jan. 6 revisionism that Trump made part of his reelection campaign.
46% : Just as Hitler reframed the putsch as an example of "a fanatically extreme nationalism of the highest ethics and morality," Trump and the right-wing media have been trying to recast Jan. 6 as patriotic, and the prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters as unjust.
34% : Two words should leap to mind each time Trump repeats his "day of love" gaslighting: "Camp Auschwitz.
30% : Trump has been creatively unclear about which of the rioters he will pardon, claiming at some times that he won't include those who committed violence and, at other times, insinuating a blanket pardon.
19% : By blurring the memory of that awful day, Trump can make his promised pardons for the rioters seem like an act of mercy -- when, in fact, they would set the stage for more violence and more hate.
12% : "Pardoning such crimes would contradict Mr. Trump's support for law and order," the Journal wrote, "and it would send an awful message about his view of the acceptability of political violence done on his behalf."

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