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The Invasion of Capitol Hill: Of Traitors and Metamemes
By Moses Cirulis
Presented by Modest Metamodernist
Events that should have shocked me don’t anymore. Not since late 2016. I’ve slowly watched people become more and more enveloped in their ideology bubbles since that fateful day, in November 2016. And when I watched Trump’s traitors storm Capitol Hill last month, on January 6th, I sort of wondered what took them so long, given how polarized I’d watched them become beforehand.
Well, I suppose I should cover the event itself first…
The Day
On January 6th, a group of white nationalists gathered before Donald Trump and some of his supporters. In Donald Trump’s speech, he did not concede, calling the election fraudulent, and telling his supporters, many of them holding flags related to such movements as Stop the Steal, Q-Anon, and the Proud Boys, that they had to “fight like hell, or [they] wouldn’t have a country anymore.” [1] As his white terrorist army, whipped into a seditious frenzy, marched onto Capitol Hill, Trump himself tweeted that he hoped the protestors would protest peacefully, no doubt for plausible deniability.
Some of them had zip ties for taking hostages. Others had guns. In general they far outnumbered the cops guarding the hill, some of whom were crushed…
