January 16, 2022
Yes, Virginia, the January 6 ‘insurrection’ exists
By Lewis Dovland
Just as Francis Church of the New York Sun famously replied to 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon’s question about Santa in 1897, we too can say: “Yes, Virginia, the insurrection exists” and has for a century. But it’s not what the left and the mainstream media have identified.
The definition of insurrection includes “actions taken against an established government” for the purposes of overthrowing the government and it includes violence.
By that definition, conservatives, constitutionalists, independents, and even many traditional liberals—a majority I call Normal Americans (“Normals”)—cannot ever be guilty of that charge. Why? Because we are not trying to overthrow and replace our duly formed constitutional republic form of government. Period.
We are defending that government against an outright attack by radicals who do want to replace it, and we are pushing back against the unelected bureaucratic and authoritarian administrative state that the left uses for power and control. Normals have zero desire to collapse America, harm its economy, or enslave its people through Marxist control. Radicals do.
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