Today is, of course, January 6th. Five years ago, Donald incited an insurrection against his own government, encouraging a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol, and endangering the lives of every single person in that building. His actions led to chaos, violence, and the deaths of at least seven people. Dozens of Capitol police officers were injured, some of them grievously. Many of them remain traumatized to this day.

Donald and the Trump regime desperately want to pretend either that January 6th was a positive thing, or to pretend that it never happened at all. It is up to all of us to make sure that we never forget the horrors that were inflicted on this country and on our democracy on that day, all because Donald could not accept that he lost the 2020 election to his opponent, Joe Biden, by almost eight million votes. The narcissistic wound occasioned by the loss was too deep for him to process. Thus the big lie was born and then perpetuated by the Republican Party.

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Republicans in Congress could have chosen to protect democracy over the one man who has done more to weaken our institutions and destroy our constitutional order, but they chose Donald Trump. In the years since that horrific day, the corporate media, along with the Republican Party, Donald, and his inner circle, have done Yeoman’s work in trying to normalize the greatest betrayal of this country since the Civil War.

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We cannot allow that to stand. It is up to us to remember how many people were involved in protecting our Capitol and the people in it, how many people tried desperately to hold the insurrectionists to account, and how much damage has been done by Donald and the Republicans in Congress not only to our democracy, but to our sense as Americans of what our country stands for.

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