That the attempted coup transpired on January 6 is rich in irony. Two millennia ago, on that day in Bethlehem, the Magi made a pilgrimage to greet and honor the newly born Christ, with gifts of incense, myrrh, and gold. In this 2021 version, not the Magi but the MAGA horde came bearing “gifts” of faux patriotism, conspiracy theories, and a level of intelligence a rock would recognize.
These gestures were a way of avoiding responsibility, a washing of hands, of duplicitously acting as though they were men and women of conscience come to their senses. Troubling too were the pitiful security arrangements. Why was the Capitol so easily breached? And the response to this mostly white mob seemed respectful, in contrast to the overly aggressive manner in which peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters last summer were treated. When the rioters were exiting the Capitol, none were arrested. White privilege? No question. Trumpism has revivified the morally corrupt racial and cultural hierarchy that forms a large and dark part of the American ethos.
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