With a few notable exceptions, the mainstream news media and other public voices described the right-wing terrorist attack on the Capitol in relatively benign terms as the acts of a 'disorganized mob' or as something 'spontaneous' and 'shocking.'ĭonald Trump and his propagandists and co-conspirators, on the other hand, created their own alternate reality in which Jan. America's political elites, including too many among the news media, chose to ignore these warnings or somehow convince themselves that it was all 'hyperbole.' These events were publicly announced by Trump, his spokespeople, allies and followers. As part of that coup plot, Trump's followers launched a lethal terrorist attack on the U.S. 6, Donald Trump and his cabal attempted a coup to overthrow American democracy. It all feels like a confusing slow blur.įor those of us who do care and who choose to see the truth, what do we do when the final form, the entire ugliness behind America's crisis of democracy, is finally revealed? It's an observation about how people function in a society caught in an interregnum, that time of in-betweenness when the old is giving way to something new (and potentially something horrible), when truth and reality are being dismembered by fascists and their fellow travelers. This is not a claim about some grand secret conspiracy. Others are either incapable or unwilling, or remain in a profound state of denial.

They are indifferent or tired, or just so hyper-focused on their own lives that nihilism and surrender are preferable to confrontation and engagement.

Too many other Americans appear not to care about the blatant effort by the Republican fascists and others to rewrite reality. The frustration mounts because as a group those who see the truth and are ready to speak it do not yet have the full vocabulary required to make sense of it all. The results include an inescapable feeling of dread and doom. Some Americans can see this, and understand it. Reality is being rewritten before our eyes.

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