Well, as with all things that come from Trump, I am disgusted but not surprised. Trump sent his virtual brownshirts to shut down Congress, and that’s just what they did. 

I do wonder why the Capitol Police and the D.C. Police were so completely unprepared to deal with this riot? There were many indications that such a thing could happen, was likely to happen, and, once Trump gave his harangue in the morning, they should have known that it was sure to happen.

Who exactly were the Trump supporters who attacked the Senate and House of Representatives? I examined photos of the rioters and did not see many of what I would call polite people. There were a lot of guys, many of them short, many of them a bit overweight, most of them sporting beards and baseball caps. They looked like the sort of people the peak of whose social lives is gun and knife shows. In films of some of the attacks it was clear that most of these men were just looking for a fight, any fight, just seeking to smash something, anything, just wanting to be bad little boys and impress the other bad little boys. In England they would be football hooligans.

And in interstices of the t.v. coverage I saw Josh Hawley raising his fist to show his solidarity with the mob and Ted Cruz looking and talking like a lounge lizard. These good ol’ boys pretend to believe Trump’s Great Lie. They both know damned well that Trump lost the election, but they want to have a commission to look into irregularities. 

What bullshit! Hawley and Cruz pretend to represent the many voters who are suspicious about the results of the election. These voters are suspicious because they were told untruths again and again. If some voters believed that the moon is composed of green cheese, Hawley and Cruz would call for a commission to examine the moon.