It was hard to watch the scenes of President Donald Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Wednesday as the joint session of Congress was convened to debate and ratify President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory. Suddenly, the home of America's representative government was threatened not by Islamic terrorists or China or Russia, but by the people the lawmakers represent – Americans. And the Americans in question had just attended a rally where President Trump told them Biden stole the election and the procedure going on the joint session was illegitimate.

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The day before his supporters stormed the Capitol, Georgia elected two new Democrat senators. Those elections mean that beginning January 20, the Democrats will control all three elected bodies in Washington. And so, at least until the 2022 Congressional elections, Democrats will be able to do whatever they wish and Republicans won't be able to stop them.

The events Wednesday will doubtlessly dominate the news cycle at least until Biden's inauguration. And, given the nature of the US media, the coverage will doubtlessly ignore two realities without which the public will be unable to understand what happened Wednesday or understand the nature of American politics and culture.
The first reality is that the assault on the Capitol was not a unique event. Rather it was a direct continuation of the political violence that leftist groups dominated by BlackLivesMatter and Antifa have engaged in cities across America since last May.

BLM and Antifa rioters have burned and looted small businesses, destroying the savings and livelihoods of tens of thousands of Americans. Armed and violent rioters stormed and destroyed a police precinct in Minneapolis. They laid siege to a federal courthouse in Portland and vandalized the mayor's home.

Contrary to the wizened intonations of "experts" on TV, the last time the Capitol was besieged wasn't during the War of 1812, when the British burned the Capitol and the White House. It was two years ago. A mob far larger than the one that stormed the building Wednesday took over the Hart Senate Office Building during Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing to intimidate lawmakers into voting down his nomination.

As BLM and Antifa rioters burned a swathe across the country, even as police officers and civilians were killed and wounded, Democrat politicians on the local, state and national levels supported them. While distancing himself from the violence, Biden supported them. In a television interview in late August, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris egged on the shock troops and embraced them.

Speaking to Stephen Colbert, Harris said of the rioters, "Everyone beware. They're not gonna stop before election day in November, and they're not gonna stop after election day … They're not gonna let up and they should not."
The media, including social media giants Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube backed the rioters. Their hashtags were trending and their violence whitewashed even as people were killed and wounded and their mayhem inflicted $2 billion in damages on the US economy already battered by the coronavirus. The brunt of the financial burden was shouldered by small business owners.

The second reality that is underplayed in the newsrooms quick to criminalize the outgoing president is that the Republicans including Trump and his closest associates and supporters opposed the storming of the Capitol. The Senators and members of Congress who were raising objections to the electoral votes of several states based on widespread allegations of voter fraud were in the middle of making their claims when the protesters attempted to force their way into the joint session. They condemned the protesters.

Media personalities closely associated with Trump condemned the protesters and called on police to arrest those engaged in violence. Trump not only called for the protesters to behave peacefully. He posted a video calling for them to stand down and leave the Capitol. But whereas the social media giants were happy to serve as the logistics bases for Antifa and BLM rioters, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all froze Trump's accounts and removed his video plea from their servers.

Wednesday's storming of the Capitol was an American tragedy. It marked the moment the center collapsed. The gap between the two political camps is unbridgeable today.

Wednesday's violent protest is a much graver tragedy for President Trump personally and for the 74 million Americans who voted for him than it is for their Democrat opponents. While Trump did call on the protesters to cease and desist, he also incited their actions during his remarks at the rally.

Trump told them Biden stole the election and that with the Republican loss of the Senate, America was going to the dogs. He also told them to march to the Capitol. True, as the lack of police presence outside the Capitol building indicated, there was little concern that the Trump supporters would behave violently. Trump probably didn't think they would. But, by lighting matches in a barn, Trump burned down his own legacy. He won't be remembered for lowering taxes and rebuilding the US economy or for bringing peace to the Middle East. He will be remembered for sending his supporters to the Capitol where they rioted.

Looking ahead, Trump's action also made it easier for Democrats to demonize his supporters going forward as they express principled opposition to the policies the Democrats are poised to adopt later this month after they assume full control of the US government.

Democrat support for BlackLivesMatter is the key to understanding what the next weeks, months and years hold in store. BLM is not a normal civil rights movement. It is a violent revolutionary movement. It doesn't demand the dismantling of police forces in cities around the country to address specific grievances. As its charter makes clear, BLM's demand to dismantle the police is rooted in the movement's rejection of America's moral right to police.
In Israel, discussions of BLM have honed in on its official anti-Semitism. BLM's charter rejects Israel's right to exist and its members have specifically targeted synagogues and Jewish businesses in places like Los Angeles and Kenosha.

But BLM is first and foremost an anti-American organization. Its charter describes the United States as a criminal state which was born not in a democratic revolution that brought the glad tidings of freedom and liberty to its people and to the world. As BLM and its supporters see things, the US was born in the original sin of slavery. And 400 years later, the America they describe is an inherently, structurally racist society.

The only way for the US to cleanse itself of the stain of its evil nature is through a revolutionary, racist, Marxist redistribution of wealth and opportunity and position in American society.

Today, the Democrat Party is committed to translating BLM's anti-American dogma into policy. And the work has already begun.

Earlier this week, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives approved a new rule that bans the use of gender-specific terms. "Father," "mother," "brother," "sister," "uncle," and "aunt" for instance are now banned. They are to be replaced by gender-neutral terms like "parent," and "sibling," and "sibling of parent." Absurd, tyrannical and inhuman on its face, the new rule advances BLM's doctrinal goal of destroying the nuclear family.
Shortly after the vote count in Georgia made clear that Democrats had won control of the upper chamber, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced that the Democrats will "study and look at," eliminating the filibuster – the Senate rule that requires super-majorities for passing laws.

The filibuster blocks radical policy shifts by requiring the majority party to convince at least some members of the minority party to sign on to their bills before they become law. Abrogating the filibuster is a precondition for Democrats to pass a series of radical measures that taken together will change the face of America.

Among other things, the measures include giving statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. By adding four new senators from these territories, the Democrats will effectively ensure their continued control the Senate indefinitely.

The Democrats also intend to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to fifteen, which will enable them to pack the court with progressive jurists guaranteeing a progressive majority for at least the next generation.

The Democrats intend to nationalize healthcare in the US. They intend to pass the so-called "Green New Deal," a package of legislation regarding energy and pollution conceived by activists in the extreme margins of the party. The package will cost US taxpayers in excess of $10 trillion and destroy America's fossil fuels industries.
House Democrats approved a rule this week that will enable the appropriation by simple majority of massive sums not covered by the US treasury for environmental and health programs.

While Israel's community health clinics and hospitals are immunizing citizens against the coronavirus at a breakneck pace, America's vaccination efforts are barely advancing. So far, only thirty percent of the vaccines that have been distributed have found their way to the arms of Americans.

One of the major causes of the hold-ups is fear. Healthcare providers are fearful they will be subjected to civil suits and criminal prosecutions for vaccinating "the wrong people." Early last month, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington, (CDC) issued guidance for the provision of vaccines. The CDC's guidance gives preference to blacks and other racial minorities in vaccination drives in order to "promote justice," and "mitigate health inequality." New York state and New York City both adopted vaccination policies in keeping with the woke CDC. And now, a chain of health clinics in Brooklyn is accused of "fraud," for providing the vaccine to people not included in official guidance.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said this week that clinics that do not obey the state's race-based vaccination policies will have their operating licenses revoked and will be subjected to a million-dollar fine.

Trump stormed onto the political stage five and a half years ago. And almost immediately, he dominated the Republican stage. Tens of millions of Americans, who felt they had been forgotten by a Washington that had surrendered to the commissars of political correctness saw in the flamboyant real estate magnate their mouthpiece.

At the first Republican primary debate in June 2015, Trump declared, "The big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people that I don't frankly have time for total political correctness, and to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either."

As the curtains come down on the Trump presidency, America is entering into an era of "total political correctness" the likes of which it has never seen, as the party in complete control of the US government works steadily to implement the revolutionary dogma of the thugs that torched America's cities last year.
They will use Wednesday's storming of the Capitol as a pretext for everything they do.

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A crowd of no more than 100 demonstrators defied a dusk-to-dawn curfew as they assembled around a park near a courthouse that has been the hub of nightly skirmishes between protesters and police following Sunday's shooting, which left Jacob Blake Jr, 29, paralyzed.

Police on Thursday kept a low profile, and a beefed-up contingent of Wisconsin National Guard troops activated earlier by Governor Tony Evers to help restore order remained largely out of sight.

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Amid widening protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin, Pence and other Republicans at their national convention described the Nov. 3 contest between Trump and Biden as a choice between "law and order" and lawlessness.

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"The hard truth is you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America," Pence told the crowd seated on a lawn at historic Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

Pence added that a vote for President Trump is also a vote for law and order worldwide. Stating that this administration has "Stood up to our enemies and we've stood with our allies. Like when President Trump kept his word and moved the American embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the state of Israel, setting the stage for the first Arab country to recognize Israel in 26 years."

Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, Trump joined Pence on stage after the speech as the crowd chanted: "Four more years."

Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot Blake, 29, multiple times in the back at close range on Sunday, reigniting protests against racism and police brutality that erupted across the United States earlier in the year.

During a third night of unrest on Tuesday, three people were shot, two fatally. The state's lieutenant governor said the white teenager arrested on homicide charges was apparently a militia member who sought to kill innocent protesters.

Ahead of Pence's speech, Trump said he would send federal law enforcement to Kenosha by agreement with the state's governor.

"Let me be clear: the violence must stop – whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha," said Pence, who did not mention Blake. "We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American of every race and creed and color."

Biden said earlier he had spoken with Blake's family on Wednesday and, like the family, also called for an end to the violence. But unlike Trump, who has yet to publicly comment on the police shooting, Biden called for justice and defended the right to protest.

"Protesting brutality is a right and absolutely necessary, but burning down communities is not protest. It's needless violence," Biden said in a video posted by his campaign.

Pence repeated the unfounded charge that Biden supports liberal activist calls to "defund" the police. Biden rejects that approach and has promised instead to invest $300 million in grants to hire more diverse officers and train them to develop better relationships with communities.

Trump has intensified his "law and order" campaign theme as polls have shown voters give him poor grades for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 179,000 Americans.

During this week's convention, Republican speakers have tried to shore up Trump's slumping support among women, Black voters, and immigrants - groups that opinion polls show have been alienated by his divisive style.

On Wednesday, several speakers highlighted his support for women - part of a broader effort to portray Trump as caring and supportive of colleagues, family, and even strangers.

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, who announced earlier this week she would step down at the end of the month to spend time with her children, said Trump had given her an influential role in his 2016 campaign and at the White House.

"A woman in a leadership role can still seem novel. Not so for President Trump. For decades, he has elevated women to senior positions in business and in government. He confides in and consults us, respects our opinions, and insists that we are on equal footing with the men," Conway said.

Pence spoke at the Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland – a federal facility that is the site of the battle during the War of 1812 that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."

A former Indiana governor and congressman and a conservative Christian, Pence has served as a key connector between Trump and evangelical voters, an influential part of the Republican political base.

Pence sought to reshape the narrative around the economy, casting the millions of jobs lost to the pandemic as a temporary setback. Despite lagging behind Biden in opinion polls, Trump gets higher marks as a steward of the economy than his Democratic rival does.

"Last week, Joe Biden said 'no miracle is coming.' What Joe doesn't seem to understand is that America is a nation of miracles, and we're on track to have the world's first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year," Pence said.

Trump and other administration officials have predicted a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year, but some experts are skeptical the trials, which must study potential side effects on different types of people, can be completed so soon.

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At their own party convention last week, Biden and his running mate, US Senator Kamala Harris of California, warned another four years in the White House for Trump would lead to chaos and threaten democracy.

Pence cast the choice in similar terms from the other side.

He accused Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama and a centrist who defeated an array of more progressive candidates for the Democratic nomination, of being a stalking horse for the radical left.

"Last week, Joe Biden said democracy is on the ballot, and the truth is our economic recovery is on the ballot, law and order are on the ballot," he said. "But so are things far more fundamental and foundational to our country. The choice in this election is whether America remains America."

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