Contributed to Jan 6th?
How do you proportion blame for Jan 6th. Are you saying it's like 80% Trumps fault with 20% being other factors. Give me a rough ball park about how strong your feeling on it is. To me it seems quite simple to blame Trump for his unprecedented actions.
Ascribing a number is didfficult, Democrats failings are why Trump became a thing in the first place, and since his arrival the battle for hearts and minds became more and more vicious and irresponsible.
But my point is simple, 2020 was a crazy year, with a huge amount of major events that contributed to mass civil unrest on numerous occasions. I can condemn the actions, while acknowledging the reasons that led up to it.
COVID - huge tension that locked people in their homes, id say it was safe to say the Democrats were far more pro lock downs than Republicans no? Republicans tend to believe in free markets to solve problems instead of social safety nets. Not ro mention Democrats refusing to accept vaccines from operation warpspeed, and fighting for mask mandates etc. Democrats absolutely were perceived of sacrificing public to beat Trump from a neatral POV.
BLM - Republicans watched months and billions of damage of rioting being essentially defended and promoted by Democrats. Rule of law, and COVID restrictions seemed to be turned off for racial equity. Democrats literally took the knee to BLM. Id feel uneasy if Labour took a knee, and pledged to assist jst stop oil, and the disruption on society that would cause (from a BLM position, abolishing prisons, law enforcement and the traditional family).
Economic impact of COVID - during later in the year it became a discussion of hpw to open up, republicans were far more eager to open societies than Dems, who wanted further lockdowns. People were living off scraps, especially the republican demographics who are poorer. This would absolutely have created anger and frustration.
Election logistics - Voter ID and especially mail in voting created a tinder box, both sides absolutely contributed to the blame culture, with them both accusing each other of election meddling. Demoxrats were viewed as elongating lock downs to impliment a much less strict voter system, one which Republicans viewed as comprimised. Dems screaming Russia for 5 years plus didnt help.
Social media - with so much bull **** flying around, noone knew what to believe, so everyone believed everything. Look at the attacks on Trump for claiming it came from China, when he closed the borders he was called racist, then 2 months later he was villified for reacting too slowly lol. Blaming deaths on Trump became common place, defending China became common place, and there was tons of Putin wants Trump to win, and Trump will erase elections if he wins lol. At this stage right wing creators were using every Democrat action as anti democracy. Bannings and restrictions of anti COVID rhetoric, targetted Republicans mostly.
Mainstream - maybe the stupidest issue, reporters embarrassing themselves throwing gotcha questions, and going after Trump for nonsense created an us vs them, im reminded of the asian reporter asking about the origins of COVID, and Trump.replies 'ask china' and she freaks out about why he directed the answer to her lol.
Hunter laptop story - this was such unreal timing, and kind of wrapped up all tensions from Republicans in one lovely little bundle.
3 weeks before a horrible election cycle, from all sides, the post report on it, linking Joe knowledge of his sons dodgy dealings in Ukraine and China. What did everyone do? Communicate calmly about what it was, how verified it was, and why it is important to take a breath and put it in context? No, just hammer ban anyone who mentions it, have the FBI, CIA and former US intelligence officer calm it Russian propoganda, force every agency to kill the story, and refuse to allow people to discuss it... great play for the election, probably saved Bidens case, but destroted credibility in a lot of organisations and painted them as anti people. Democrats absolutely were involved in this.
Post election nonsense - Election night was freaky, i always stay up and watch, by 3 am i thought it was game over, Trumps won it, but then that mad dump of postal votes, vans rocking up to polling centres, people covering windows, observers being ejected, then convictions for fraud, all these typical behaviours that happens every 4 years, documented and scrutinised like never before, and Democrats went on the full offensive and offered no attempt to quell tensions whatsoever.
So, despite me never defending Trumps actions, as i believe he was irresponsible for the post election chaos, and leading up to the day, but i can absolutely be empathetic towards MAGA supporters in trying to understand their actions in that time. They make absolute sense, and aside from the radical few, the tensions and frustrations throughout is human nature.
They perceived the Democrats spend a year trying to lock them up, then celebrate riots, then try to lock them up again, then dismiss them as racist deplorables, then go after Trump in every legal way possible, try to include millions of illegal civilians into the process, and degrade election security.
This is all Democrat failings, and stupidity that absolutely contributed to Jan 6th, and thisnis not to downplay Trumps role, but as some very smart person said above, multiple things can be true at once, the alternative is demonisation of near 80 million as bad, because regardless of political affiliation most people are not bad.
if i was forced to put a number on it:
Trump 40%
Dems 20%
Reps 10%
Social media 20%
George Soros 10%
