Police Officers Testify On Violence Of 1/6

I haven't watched the hearings yet. This thing is from The Nation (which not an actual news source unless Aaron Mate is on the byline). I wanted to post something from the blue team--in I have no idea whether these officers represent the general sentiment among the USCP. I don't even have a settled view about the riot--I've seen footage that was repulsively insane, and other footage that does, indeed, show "peaceful protesters" being ushered into the Capitol. There were clearly innocent people involved, there were clearly some repulsive psychotics. I'd like to know the truth--which we, needless to say, will not get from basically anything involving the contemporary Democrats. At least we might get it from the Pubs in some cases--though likely not this one. 

   Speaking of the shittiness of The Nation--did you realize that Jim Jordan is a "wingnut sociopath"? Hey, me neither!

   Anyway: I just want the truth. It's hard to remain objective when leftist mobs have been left basically free to loot and burn and murder, with no similar effort to get the ugly facts in front of Congress and the nation. But we're better than they are, so we have to care about this. It wasn't as bad in real terms as the BLM/antifa riots, obviously. But symbolically it was worse--and that matters, too. All the levers of power are now radically slanted left--as these hearings will be. Not to mention the MSM reporting on them. Everything will be spun in the worst possible way--even as the other half of the relevant story is not told. The BLM/antifa rioters attacked the people; repulsive as I find the attack on the Capitol, no one could possibly have really doubted the future of the Republic. 

   As I've said before, Trump f*cked us by calling for this demonstration. He might well have saved the country if he could have taken just the very craziest edge of crazy off his crazy. But he couldn't. So what he did was come yeeeah close to calling for disruption of the certification...and then stand by while it happened. Even leaving aside the question of Trump's well-deserved personal ignominy for the time being, he strengthened the hand of the hand of the anti-liberal, anti-rational left as effectively as he possibly could have--short of actually refusing to leave office or actually calling for a coup.

   Dumbass.