The Capitol breach and the unfortunate series of events that followed must be condemned. This should never have happened.. The Nation’s Institutions of Government have to be respected and those who have acted in violation of the law must be prosecuted.
Classical Historian Victor Davis Hanson said it very well here:
The proper conservative response to the violent entry into the Capitol, vandalism, & assaults on law-enforcement is to identify the guilty parties & ensure their arrest. No constitutional republic can tolerate its iconic heart stormed, breached & defiled.
However what did occur that day was not a cop d’etat and it certainly was not analogous to Kristallnacht (Nov 9/10 1938). 90+ Jews were killed, 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps on Kristallnacht. Historian Richard Evans further attributes 638 suicide deaths to the events of that night. Kristallnacht was a pogrom.
So to Arnold Schwarzenegger (a man who flirted for a long time with an actual Nazi – fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim) and other historical ignoramuses in the media why don’t you STFU. You are adding nothing to the resolution of the political impasse that exists and are further worsening an already toxic environment.
In addition you are downplaying a critical turning in Holocaust history for political points in the contemporary. Absolutely disgraceful.
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