1/6/21: The Götterdämmerung of the MAGA Movement

The political catharsis that America has needed for generations

If a MAGA insurrectionist spouts political insanity and racial hatred before an empty chamber, does he make a sound?

January 6th, 2021 will probably be remembered by most as yet another date that will live in infamy. Some will decry it as the day when the fragility of our democracy was broadcast to the world in real time, while others (myself included) will see it as hard proof of institutional racism at the very highest levels of our government; after all, we all know what would have happened if it had been BLM protesters who broke through the police lines and onto the floor of the Capitol building, and even into the personal offices of members of Congress. Instead, there’s Capitol police taking selfies with the rioters.

Instead, we should see this as a banner day for American democracy, for it is today when our nation’s right-wing white-supremacist fever finally began to break.

Oh, the problems will continue for generations to come, but it is right here on this very day that many — perhaps most — Republicans began to realize just how far off the edge of the political map they’ve gone, for now they’re looking at a monster called “armed insurrection in our nation’s capital”.

For the MAGA insurrectionists, today is their Götterdämmerung, the final battle ‘twixt good and evil, and there is no doubt…