About the January 6th Insurrection, One Year Later

Today the major media outlets are commemorating the violent attack on our nation's capital and democracy a year ago on January 6th, focusing on the mass assault and occupation on the Capitol building, fomented and praised by sitting-and-defeated president Donald Trump.  Unfortunately, that attack on our cherished freedoms to peacefully and duly elect our leaders didn't end there, though.  After the attack and Congress reassembled to officially count the electoral votes, two thirds of the Republicans in the House of Representatives and seven in the Senate voted to overturn the people's will in the election...for the first time ever in our country's history: pure authoritarian fascism.  Sadly, one of my own state's senators, Rick Scott, and my own representative, Cat Cammack, joined in this travesty...I will always regard them both as fascists, along with the others including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and, of course, the instigator of it all: Donald Trump.  In 2016 I was disappointed in Trump's election but noted...on this blog...that he won it fair and square.  His opponent Hillary Clinton promptly acknowledged her defeat and Trump's win, and sitting president Obama the next day invited the victor to visit him at the White House in order to plan a speedy transition.  There was no sense of return to this graciousness on Trump's part in 2020 as he launched more than 60 frivolous lawsuits against various states that went for his opponent Joe Biden, and even tried to get the Georgia Secretary of State to manufacture more than 11,000 votes for himself...this action alone should have him in prison right now.  Yet Americans by the millions within the Republican Party cannot disengage themselves from this strongman fantasy they're attached to about this dictator-wannabe, and their leaders for the most part are too frightened to speak up against him.  The 2022 elections to me won't be as much a referendum about Biden and his presidency as it will be about whether our country is capable of sustaining its own highly cherished status as a democratically elected republic...