That of course has been brought home every day over the last 4 years by MAGA, culminating in their claim of a mostly peaceful busy tourist day for 1/6. Obviously and demonstrably false, but it doesn’t matter to them. In fact there is video of the tourist quote guy helping to barricade the HOR chamber.
But it’s not just MAGA. Look at Ferguson in 2014 which in my view was an inflection point in race relations in this nation. That was not a situation of a “gentle giant” with his hands up getting shot in the back. Rather it was an incident of a thug who had just robbed a convenience store, fighting a cop for his gun and then coming back at the cop and getting shot. That was a good shoot in police parlance every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Yet BLM and their supporters arranged riots all over based on a completely false narrative. Then the family gets to speak at the DNC? These are parents who were literally housing this criminal. Then POTUS comes out and sides with BLM? And you wonder why those on the far right play off outrage? It was gift wrapped for them there and gave oxygen to a half whit like Orange.
My point is that the nutties and the outrageous, fact free narratives both ways are winning. Again, not good.
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