Dear Commons Community,
Maureen Dowd had a heartfelt column in the New York Times yesterday and evoked the memory of her father who was a plainclothes detective in charge of U.S. Senate security. She and her family had deep respect and love for the Capitol and despises how it was desecrated during Wednesday’s insurrection. She places the blame squarely on President Trump. Here are her concluding comments.
“In New York, Donald Trump was a corrupt Joker who took cudgels to the historic friezes on Bonwit Teller. In Washington, he became something evil. He took cudgels to history itself, to our institutions, decency and democracy.
He draped his autocratic behavior in the American flag. Surrounded by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, F.D.R., M.L.K. and monuments to our war dead, this coward whipped up a horde of conspiracists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and gullible acolytes to try to steal an election for him. He said he would march to the Capitol with them, but he didn’t, of course. He watched his insurrection on TV, like the bum that he is.
Donald Trump is ruined, along with his repellent family. Even Twitter had finally had enough, suspending its leading arsonist after allowing him to fan the flames for years. The House might well impeach him, and he deserves it, though the Senate might not have the time or inclination to toss him out.
Josh Hawley’s political future evaporated in a cloud of tear gas, and Ted Cruz reinforced why everyone hates him.
Only two days after the Trump mob followed orders to engage in seditious “trial by combat,” as the execrable Rudy Giuliani put it, the White House put out a statement: “As President Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one Nation.”
We will heal, once the rough beast in the White House slouches off. Something wicked this way goes.”
Trump is a rough beast and an evil coward who is responsible for the insurrection on Wednesday and the lives lost.
Tony
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