Insurrection!

'Protesters' storming the Capital (Wbur News)

I  am in a state of shock. This is the worst thing I have ever witnessed in America since the assassination of JFK. With even worse implications. And I cannot  help but place the blame squarely on the President of the United States. 

The United States Capital has been stormed by radical right wing supporters of the President. The Senate was evacuated in the middle of counting the electoral votes. Which had to stop. Members of congress  have been evacuated

The President’s constant denial of the election results claiming the it was stolen from him by massive fraud is clearly what generated this. A protest was scheduled with the encouragement of the President. But I NEVER would have believed that anything like this would result. This is not peaceful protest. Which they certainly had a right to do. Even if the vast majority of the world disagreed with them. This is insurrection! The only thing missing is a military coup! The kind of thing that  happens in 3^rd  world dictatorships. Not the kind of thing that happens in the greatest democracy on earth. 

The President recorded  a message that told these people to go home and that we need peace. But it was made in such tepid tones that it sounded insincere. He peppered that message with sympathy for the protestors and repeated several times his false assertion that he was cheated and really won by a landslide. 

None of those protestors are going home based on that message. They are staying put. 

To be clear, I do not believe for a moment that this has even the slightest degree of approval by the vast majority of the 74 million people that voted for him. I'm sure that most of them condemn what is going on there as much as I do. But it doesn’t matter. What is perfectly clear is that all of the people participating are Trump supporters. Probably consisting mostly of the entire panoply of  right wing extremists.  Including white supremacists, racists, and antisemites.

This cannot stand. If the President has a shred of decency left, he ought to come out right now and condemn everyone that  took  part in this, insist they be arrested, and then have the book thrown at them. These people are criminals who are probably guilty of treason! 

But the President is incapable of that. That has been made abundantly clear.  I am so disgusted and angry by what this poor excuse of a human being has wrought, that  I can barely think straight. This is not the America that I know and love. 

These people are thugs. Not much different than the radical thugs that infiltrated the Black Lives Matter protests and caused chaos looting, and destruction. 

I never thought that tis could happen in the United States of America. And yet it is happening right before my eyes – and the eyes of the world.

It behooves all Orthodox Jews - including and especially those that voted for him to stand up and forcefully condemn what is happening right now in Washington. And to understand and admit that it was the President that  incited it. It is high time for the truly good Orthodox Jews that voted for Trump to face reality. To sober up and admit that they supported a monster! I know he did some good things for us. But what is happening now because of him makes that all seem trivial by comparison.