Amus de Wauchope

In a lengthy June 5th piece, Mike Dorning and Billy House of Bloomberg News express complete bewilderment that voters would continue to support the politicians who Bloomberg News claims perpetuated the January 6th capital riot.

In true ivory tower, blue check fashion, the two authors parrot the same tired lingo establishment journalists use over, and over, and over again. They claim the riot was an organized attack on the capital and that it was the worst attack on the capital since the War of 1812. They say it was an insurrection or that it was an assault on the seat of our government.

Frankly, they really ought to put down the thesaurus and get over themselves.

Ordinary Americans—the people cooking your food or spending each day in a deary office cubical—don't care about DC drama. At the end of the day, drama is what the January 6th riot has become. Every time the 6th is brought up, it's the same bunch of uptight, better than you elitists complaining that when the wrong people riot, it's a threat to American democracy. It has become so tiresome.

Unlike most Americans, Dorning and House seem to have forgotten the summer of "mostly peaceful" riots that occurred nationwide in the months preceding the capital riot. Most Americans haven't forgotten how the riots caused the air to become thick with danger and fear, or how their neighborhood grocery store started to prominently display armed security personnel. Most Americans haven't forgotten the lawlessness that killed dozens of innocent people and destroyed the livelihoods of countless others.

Believe it or not, most Americans remember when the same establishment clique, now so offended at the January 6th riot, was overjoyed at the notion of a nation violently rising up against then President Trump.

If Vice President Harris hadn't raised bail money to free Black Lives Matter rioters, Americans would care about January 6. If Representative Ocasio-Cortez didn't create a list of political demands needing to become law before the BLM riots would end, Americans would care about January 6. I have to think that if the mainstream media had so much as a single scruple and accurately reported what happened in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha, Americans might care about January 6.

The forthcoming prime-time TV hearings by the January 6th Select Committee will do nothing to change ordinary Americans' perception of what happened on January 6th. As it stands, Americans have much bigger and more immediate problems that require immediate government action to solve. Americans need a stable currency and a common-sense energy policy. Americans need their legislators to stop simply pretending to care about the common man and do something relevant to the problems they're facing.

I would like to close with a question. Americans know that the same party that is so besotted with the January 6th riot is also the party responsible for their current problems. Do Democrats actually expect this to improve their midterm polling? Do they really expect parents who are unable to locate baby food to view this as anything other than a giant slap in the face?