Do Unto Liberals as They do Unto Others

When the Right gets into power, it needs to crush its enemies.

The January 6 prosecutions are an utter outrage against the older understanding of law and decency. A year and a half since some Boomers wandered around the People’s House (the horror, my god) the DC tribunal is still handing down sentences. The latest to come across my feed is James Mault, a soldier out of Fort Bragg who was convicted of spraying police with pepper spray. He’s getting three and a half years in prison, plus additional probation. And that doesn’t include what the military is likely to do to him.

This should be obvious, but this is a clearly political prosecution. I remember watching the riots of the summer of 2020 in which ANTIFA threw rocks, bricks, and concrete at police. I remember cities burned to the ground. And yet there was nothing like the prosecution being conducted against Trump’s supporters. Of the 17,000 arrests associated with the 2020 riots, the vast majority were for low level offenses like violating curfew and most didn’t culminate in meaningful charges. And while a few individuals were prosecuted for burglary, etc. there was nothing like the systematic witch hunt for suspects from the Jan 6 protest. There have been nearly a thousand individuals charged in connection with the protest.

None of this should be happening. Trump should have pardoned every single one of his supporters at the protest before he was booted from office by Zuckerberg and co. The American Right simply doesn’t understand the friend/enemy distinction. Lots of Republicans I know are critical of the rioters. I have heard numerous variations of “Well, I don’t like how they’re being treated, but they shouldn’t have been there.”

Leftists would never say this about the George Floyd protestors who blocked interstates, burned down police precincts, and assaulted federal buildings in places like Portland. That’s because they understand power politics. The older norms and civility that conservatives (the bulk of whom are 60+) simply no longer make sense.

The world of moon landings, woodstock, and the USSR that this cohort grew up with doesn’t exist. The real Marxists aren’t in Moscow, they are right here at home and they’re in power.

In a just world, a handful of the J6 protestors would have gotten charges for scuffling police, but unlike the Floyd riots, the vast overwhelming majority of protestors were peaceful! The election of 2020 was obviously fraudulent—the byproduct of illegal changes introduced by executive fiat and misbehavior by our plutocratic class. People should be allowed to protest that kind of egregious violation of democratic norms in the people’s house. Sorry, libtards!

The idea that Congress can turn itself into a fortress against the American people is absurd. Sure, there were Trump supporters who did naughty things, but I can’t get too riled up when I think of how much outright corruption and vile hatred pours out of DC against the American people.

Nancy Pelosi’s office got vandalized? Who cares! She can go cry into the hundreds of millions of dollars she and her husband have made in insider trading over the years. The same people who voted to send thousands of American boys to go die in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan really don’t provoke much sympathy from me.

The Right must absolutely not forget what is being to them right now. When Trump wins in 2024, the GOP should move immediately to do the exact same thing to the Left that they are doing to us right now. But, in this reversal, the prosecution will be deserved.

And instead of going after low-level supporters, the Right should aim for the big fish.

Hillary Clinton should be in jail.

Bill Gates should be in jail.

Anthony Fauci should be in jail.

Mark Zuckerberg should be in jail.

Hunter Biden should be in jail.

These people are guilty of crimes of a far greater magnitude against “our democracy” than any of the random Boomers who protested on January 6. They deserve to feel the full brunt of pain from prosecution. I want to see liberal billionaires and corrupt Democrats getting perp walked. That is justice.