The GOP owns the shame of Trump’s Capitol riot

Trump’s Capitol riots were inevitable. Republicans have been pulling us toward this deplorable moment for years.

They own this shame.

Nobody likes hearing undesirable facts, but Republicans took it to an immature level. Craving certitude, they fled from real news coverage and toward conservative propaganda purveyors. They surrendered their ability to think critically to their favorite propagandists. Conspiracy theories gave them the joy of victimhood: personal introspection and responsibility are not needed since it’s always the “libtards” fault. Many became so divorced from reality, they’re virtually psychotic.

Those propagandists, politicians and GOP leaders make money from their audience so they cynically took advantage by stringing them along using fearmongering, false accusations and firehosed lies. Their game is to manufacture antiliberal outrage, getting their audience gleefully angrier, their ratings increase, then they manufacture new outrage, etc. This feedback loop increases their audience’s agitation and distorted view of reality. Unfortunately the propagandists agitated too much and lost control of their rabid mob.

Donald Trump fed Republicans’ angry desires, luring them to disregard the obvious fact that he’s literally the antithesis of Jesus Christ, so they handed him the presidency and then complicitly granted him COMPLETE unaccountability. The results were tragically predictable.

— Nick Jacoubowsky, Pacific Grove