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The Biden Regime desperately needs a distraction, and it seems that stage-managed hearings on the January 6, 2021 protest is the best it can come up with [Former ABC president helping Jan. 6 committee with production of primetime hearing, by Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, June 6, 2022]. We are literally being commanded to watch [“People Must Pay Attention. People Must Watch”: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Trying To Make The Most Of Its Prime-Time TV Slot, by Terry Moseley and Charlotte Klein, Vanity Fair, June 6, 2022]. Regimes in trouble usually look for a foreign scapegoat but the Biden Regime is instead picking on a domestic enemy—namely, Trump supporters and ordinary Americans.

Thus we should pay attention to January 6—not because it was an “insurrection,” but because it provided the excuse to take away what few liberties we have left. July Kelly’s book January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right is the essential starting point.

Significantly, Kelly begins by noting that the Regime did a “victory lap” to boast of its control of the 2020 election with a piece in Time about how it “saved democracy” from President Trump [The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, by Molly Ball, February 4, 2021]. One can only imagine the way the D.C. press would react if the Russian government were putting out propaganda like Ball’s:

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain—inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests—in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

As Kelly notes, for Trump supporters, this was confirmation of everything they had feared. Big Tech really did manipulate information, CEOs and communists really are on the same side against nationalists, and the “sometimes destructive” protests (which unleashed bloodshed that is still ongoing) really were unleashed from the top down and tolerated by political authorities.

All this is far more important and fundamental than specific charges about voting machines or ballot dumps. If voters can only see certain information, and if the law is selectively enforced, the premises of self-government itself have been eliminated and no election can be “free and fair.”

Power in the American system doesn’t lie with the elected President, but with what its boosters themselves call a “conspiracy” of powerful organizations utterly determined to crush Trump supporters, i.e., the Historic American Nation.

On January 6, in their naïveté, Trump supporters thought the hands-off approach police took towards protesters from Inauguration Day 2017 all the way through the 2020 BLM riots would also apply to them. They were WRONG. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would go after “all January 6th perpetrators, at any level” [What to Know About the Hundreds Charged With Crimes in Capitol Attack, by Alanna Durkin Richer, NBC, June 7, 2022]. One of the largest manhunts in history—what VDARE.com has called “The Garland Raids,” in every way comparable to the 1920s Palmer Raids but far less justified—was unleashed against Americans, some of whom merely walked through open doors: “Open source video taken by Trump supporters and journalists on the scene showed several instances when United States Capitol Police employees opened doors or, at the very least, did not resist entry into the Capitol,” writes Kelly.

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