this article is really worth reading in terms of where we go from here: https://www.salon.com/2021/01/16/lo...rty-going-easy-on-these-people-will-not-work/ and the prescient essay he wrote in 2018: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/03/will-conservatism-end-in-nihilism/
"As surreal as that summary of recent events might seem, it was not entirely unpredictable." So predictable in fact the FBI knew about it and did nothing. Now they send in 20 thousand troops. Things that make you go Hmm.
Pretty hard to believe that the FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service, and Capitol Police all had pre-insurrection intelligence that an attack on Congress was not only predictable but probable and all managed to drop the ball at the same time. Why, it's almost like people high up in the chains of command wanted an insurrection to succeed.
Wrong, it's not [almost] like people high up in the chains of command wanted an insurrection to succeed, I believe they actually wanted it to succeed. I'm not sure they expected it to be quite this violent and threatening, though.
