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As the House of Representatives’ select committee continues its partisan probe of the Jan. 6 incident at our nation’s Capitol, they seem to be ignoring a key element that helped spark the emotions of that day: The Left’s continued assault on our free rights society. And now with that unfortunate day more than a year in our rearview, it provides Republicans a clear chance to hit the reset button and put America back on a more righteous path.
It was the Democrats who sat on their hands during President Trump’s entire four-year term as liberal mobs shouted insults and other vulgarities against his administration’s policies; it was the Left that refused to condemn the violence of the Black Lives Matter protesters during the summer of 2020 that wrecked countless businesses.
But now, seeing a political opportunity, they have seized on Jan. 6 and the aggression from some conservatives as a way to further strengthen the government’s hold on the American people. But there is no mistaking Jan. 6 as some outlier day. It was a day built upon years of frustration from the right seeing how Democrats have sought to expand government power.
The storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 regardless of if and how it was planned, regardless of the motivations of those involved, put on full display for the world to see, a disregard for the principles of law, and the protection of property; values that are core to our founding culture.
And unlike the civil unrest we have come to expect every time the progressive left doesn’t get its way, J6 caught the country off-guard – as this aggression was from the right.
The real lesson we can learn from Jan. 6 is that conservatives should not follow the lead of the Left and turn to anarchy and violence. It’s a chance to show minority groups across the country that the Left has worked to keep them under the government’s thumb.
It’s an opportunity to bring the country back to what makes the United States the greatest country in the world.
