Donald Trump has turned Jan. 6 into a triumph

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : He said he loved them and that they were very special:Over many hours we watched as bizarre Trump supporters occupied the Senate floor and took possession of the dais.
52% : They didn't succeed in keeping Donald Trump in office but they won something even more important.
49% : Four years ago today while I watched on television as Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the joint session of Congress to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election I thought to myself, "it's finally over.
46% : The idea was to reject those states to lower the threshold of required electoral votes allowing Trump to win.
35% : But when 147 Republicans still voted to overturn the election even after all that had happened, it was clear to me that was premature and that Trump wasn't done with us yet.
35% : Trump was never held accountable either because of partisan support in the Senate which voted 57-43 to impeach him after Jan. 6, falling short of the 2/3rds supermajority which would have precluded him from running again.
33% : Trump can't possibly come back after this."
31% : They even managed to excuse Trump's trying to cajole election officials into "finding" thousands of votes to put him over the top on tape.
31% : The whole thing was a corrupt set-up engineered by Trump henchmen.
29% : Many people understandably have come to accept that it really wasn't a threat to democracy or the Constitution since Donald Trump was elected to a second term in what everyone agrees was a fair election and therefore, the system still works, no harm no foul.
24% : They proved that it was possible to beguile tens of millions of voters into not only believing a Big Lie when Donald Trump told it but even when they'd seen with their own eyes that it wasn't true.
22% : Donald Trump was psychologically incapable of admitting that he lost and certain people around him were more than willing to push the envelope to see if they could get away with overturning the results of an election.
21% : On Jan. 6 when it became clear that Pence wasn't going to play ball, Trump decided to shoot the moon and send his crazed, overwrought followers to the Capitol to intimidate the Congress and stop the count.
21% : Yet the New York Times published a depressing article over the weekend examining how Trump and his minions have managed to completely turn Jan. 6 upside down in his supporters' minds.
19% : Later in the evening Trump finally emerged and put out a video telling the rioters he understood why they were so upset about all the evil people who "stole" the election
19% : If the Democrats objected, as they certainly would, Trump planned to then try to throw the election to the House (as the Constitution provides if it was a tie) in which case Trump would also win.
13% : It was a ridiculous idea made up out of whole cloth, but Donald Trump 100% bought into it.
12% : Oh sure, many Republicans did make statements condemning the insurrection and criticizing Donald Trump for his incitement.

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