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   To properly understand the storming of Capitol Hill last Wednesday, you   
   must empathize with those who died.   
      
   This is not something that President-elect Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy   
   Pelosi, presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, or their vicious   
   media boosters want to do. They want to eradicate the legacy of President   
   Trump and crush his supporters.   
      
   But you can’t erase 75 million people without destroying America.   
      
   So, let’s start with Ashli Babbitt, 35, fatally shot by law enforcement as   
   she tried to climb through a broken window in the Capitol building. She   
   was a military veteran and struggling small-business owner, a Trump   
   admirer who dutifully answered the president’s call to fly across the   
   country to support his doomed effort to overturn the election result.   
      
   Babbitt had served in the pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like   
   many of her generation, she came of age in the patriotic aftermath of 9/11   
   and signed up with the Air Force straight out of high school.   
      
   Like many veterans, she was disillusioned on her return to a nation that   
   ignored their sacrifice and was busy shipping the jobs of the working   
   class off to China.   
      
   Trump’s America First rhetoric and rejection of needless foreign wars won   
   her ardent support.   
      
   “My sister was 35 and served 14 years. To me, that’s the majority of your   
   conscious adult life,” her brother Roger Witthoeft, 32, told the New York   
   Times. “If you feel like you gave the majority of your life to your   
   country and you’re not being listened to, that is a hard pill to swallow.”   
      
   In the end, Babbitt succumbed to the madness of the crowd Wednesday and   
   lost her life as a result.   
      
   On the opposing side of the mob that invaded Capitol Hill was police   
   Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, also a military veteran. Like Babbitt, he was   
   a Trump supporter, and, like Babbitt, he had enlisted straight out of high   
   school. He served with the National Guard in Operation Desert Shield and   
   Operation Enduring Freedom and was upset about the lack of support for   
   veterans.   
      
   Sicknick died in the hospital the day after the riot, from injuries   
   sustained “while physically engaging with protesters,” said the Capitol   
   Police. His death, like the apparent suicide Saturday of another officer   
   involved in the riot, shames armchair critics who have accused police of   
   not doing enough to hold back the mob.   
      
   Police that day were outnumbered and caught by surprise when people like   
   them, who they expected would respect the law — military veterans, blue-   
   collar workers, firefighters, state legislators — turned on them.   
      
   There is rich irony in post facto laments about insufficient policing from   
   Democrats who backed calls last year to “defund the police,” glorified   
   months of anti-cop protests, normalized violence and even named streets   
   after the instigators.   
      
   Biden played along with the anti-cop rhetoric last summer, with slippery   
   words about “redirecting” police funding as punishment for “systemic   
   racism.” He pretended Antifa was just an “idea,” rather than the   
   jackbooted thugs we saw rampaging through the streets.   
      
   But on Thursday, when the worm had finally turned, and it was Trump   
   supporters who were in the wrong, Biden transformed into a law-and-order   
   hawk, blasting them as “thugs,” “white supremacists” and “domestic   
   terrorists.”   
      
   “Don’t dare call them protesters,” he said, declaring the priority for his   
   new attorney general would be “domestic terrorism.”   
      
   Biden thus set the stage for an authoritarian crackdown on the populist   
   nationalist movement that propelled Trump to power.   
      
   To drive home the point, he injected racial division into the powder keg.   
      
   “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter   
   protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very   
   differently,” he said.   
      
   That’s just not true. On Wednesday, Capitol Police reacted with tear gas   
   and deadly force.   
      
   What marked last year’s riots was the supine police reaction. The NYPD   
   even kneeled in solidarity. On the few occasions Trump sent in federal   
   reinforcements to quell the mayhem, he was maligned as a fascist.   
      
   Everyone understands what happened at Capitol Hill last week was terrible,   
   but when you crack down on your ideological foes after condoning bad   
   behavior from your own side, you lose all credibility.   
      
   Now, instead of turning down the heat, Biden and his party are proceeding   
   with another spiteful impeachment and cheering on the social-media   
   companies that have canceled the president’s accounts.   
      
   We know it’s not just about punishing Trump, who will be gone before any   
   vote gets to the Senate.   
      
   They want to humiliate and demoralize his supporters, the half of the   
   country Biden dismissed during the campaign as “chumps” and “ugly folk.”   
   They want to crush the populist-nationalist movement, which they see as a   
   challenge to their power.   
      
   They want to ideologically “cleanse” the nation, as Rick Klein, the   
   political director at ABC News, put it in a tweet.   
      
   Getting rid of Trump is the “easy part,” he said. “Cleansing the movement   
   he commands is going to be something else.”   
      
   This is a recipe for disaster. It only accelerates the alienation that   
   delivered Trump to the White House in the first place.   
      
   Biden has an opportunity to live up to his campaign promise of “unity” and   
   stop the nation sliding into a cauldron of hatred.   
      
   He should stop the impeachment and ensure that the Capitol Hill rioters   
   receive punishment proportionate to that meted out to last year’s BLM-   
   Antifa culprits.   
      
   After all, when you spent the summer cheering on the destruction of   
   statues, and the trashing of American history and social norms, you can’t   
   pretend that the Capitol is some “sacred” institution exempt from the   
   vandalism you unleashed.   
      
   That kind of double standard only disenfranchises millions of Americans   
   and pushes some to a place where they feel they have nothing to lose.   
      
   Fashion disaster   
   One last kick out the door for the Trump family came from the upmarket   
   magazines, which never deigned to put the fashion-plate former-model first   
   lady on their covers.   
      
   Instead, they’ve rushed to make Kamala Harris a cover girl before she even   
   takes office.   
      
   But the gambit backfired on Vogue, with widespread condemnation of a   
   grungy cover shot of the vice president-elect in black jeans and Converse   
   sneakers.   
      
   Hardly a glamour shot in keeping with the aspirational nature of the   
   magazine. What may have started out as an insult to Melania Trump has done   
   no favors to Harris.   
      
      
      
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   recover with no after effects.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
      
      
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