Republicans are attempting to color January 6 as a peaceable protest – however the newest video violently contradicts it

There’s a good reason the video of that day’s events begins with a warning. Because the level of violence shown is only part of what makes these clips disturbing.

The video shows officials being beaten, beaten with objects, doused with bear spray, and literally knocked down by a crowd working together to drag them between a closed door and a wall of signs. Trump supporters tear off officer’s masks, hurl heavy objects, smash officers with stolen shields, and drag them across the floor while grunting sincerely with anger and exertion.

Compare this to the celebration at CPAC where Roger Stone danced when the uprising was described as “patriots knocking on the Capitol.”

Or Boebert complains that people cannot petition the government by attacking the police, breaking open doors and looking for a few officers to hang.

Or Ron Johnson describes the people who trudged through the halls of Congress with guns, tasers, baseball bats, bats, spears and handcuffs as “people who love this country”.

Johnson claimed he was not at all concerned that a deadly riot was taking place outside and inside the Capitol building. Because white republicans on the verge of rampaging are just good American fun. On the other hand …

SEN. RON JOHNSON: If the tables had been turned, Joe, and that was going to get me in trouble – if the tables had been turned and President Trump would have won the election, and that was tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I could do a little have been concerned.

Republican efforts to downplay January 6th continue. Because they have to. You cannot support Donald Trump both, and acknowledge the extent of the anti-democratic violence that occurred on January 6th because the two things are absolutely related. The latest FBI video doesn’t need to be known that what happened on January 6th was violent. Everyone in Congress – including Boebert and Johnson – knows the truth.