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Jan. 6 Tourists Rewrite

01/20/2025 · Severity 10/10

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They're burying:Violence, injured officers, disrupted certification, and hundreds of cases.

The distraction

The Capitol attack gets reframed as tourism or mostly peaceful milling.

Why

  • Motive. Pardons and mythmaking rehabilitate the base and erase a democratic crisis.
  • Why it sticks. Selective angles and fed theories offer an exit from shame.
  • Tell. Compare pardon rhetoric to FBI wanted posters and contemporaneous footage.
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