The US Republican Party wants the world to believe that it was a “monstrous lie” that Donald Trump had inspired and in effect ordered his ultra-right-wing fascist followers to carry out the insurrection of the Capitol building, leading to deaths and serious injuries.
They want the world to forget that the rabid “MAGA” crowd were looking for several politicians, including Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, in order to assassinate them.
It was a foregone conclusion that the Republicans would vote to acquit Donald Trump. I find that a terrifying prospect because I believe that the next Trump-led insurrection will be more violent and more organised.
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Or am I over-reacting? Perhaps the Republican Party are correct. In that case perhaps we need to revisit history, starting with that nice man Adolf Hitler. Perhaps he wasn’t behind the Nazi thugs on Kristallnacht when they went on an orgy of destruction of Jewish-owned businesses and beat up any Jewish people they could find.
Thanks to our own right-wing politicians we have had Brexit which is in the process of damaging our own economy and place in the world.
These same people are happy for us to hitch our wagon to the lunacy that is the United States of America rather than remaining as part of the EU, which has helped us become richer and safer as a nation than at any time in our history.
Harry Key
Largoward
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