Incitement to riot

"The president*'s incitement to riot was just the last of it. Between his worthless spalpeens, Michael Flynn, crackpot preachers, and Rudy Giuliani, there was more evidence Wednesday morning to charge the lot of them with conspiracy to riot than there ever was against Abbie Hoffman and that crew in Chicago in 1968.

(And it wasn't just Washington, either. The state capitol buildings in Michigan, Georgia, Utah, Oregon and Kansas were occupied, and a crowd surrounded the capitols in California and Texas. One wonders.)"

Of course, in Chicago, the police didn't exactly get rolled over the way the Capitol Police did on Wednesday. They lost the Capitol building. Rioters wandered Statuary Hall with stolen podiums, smiling for news cameras. One guy literally went up the wall of the Senate chamber while another posed and shouted from the Senate president*'s chair. Some idiot parked himself in Nancy Pelosi's office. As far as I know, none of these people were arrested, even though you wouldn't have to be either Sherlock Holmes or Lenny Briscoe to make these busts. Lucky for them that they didn't do this outside an apartment complex in Kenosha...and that they were white.

I can't balance rage and sadness any more. They're mixing in a terrible combination in me, and I'm not sure I can resolve it. I still get a huge charge about working in the Capitol but, at the same time, for the past four years, there's been an undercurrent of anger and cynicism and unreality about that work. Since I began in this racket covering the 1980 presidential campaign, I have watched American conservatism, and the Republican Party that is its primary political vehicle, sliding inevitably toward Wednesday's events.

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Ted Cruz needs to be shunned by decent people, and most domestic animals, for the rest of his sorry-ass life.

And, god almighty, here is the President* of the United States in reaction to the riots he incited:

I know your pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election stolen from us. It was a landslide election. And everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace.

Sadness will have to wait. Rage wins for today.

  Esquire

I'm feeling it myself.

FBI Director Wray has some work to do.

A few weeks ago...