Jimi77
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The person responsible is Trump. Yet you want to give him a pass, claiming that he had nothing to do with it, and that all the insurrectionists somehow got the idea to attack the Capitol completely out of the blue.
And amazing coincidence. Just like those friends of Charlie Manson's who just out of the blue got an idea to go kill. Or all those people who hung out with Jim Jones just felt like drinking poison that day. Or the pals of Koresh.
Manson, Jones, Koresh- they all had NOTHING to do with what all their friends did, right? Just a crazy coincidence that the friends all had the same idea at the same time and acted on it at the same time. Just like the events of January 6th. A weird alignment of the stars, perhaps.
At least in your strangeworld.
I think your Charlie Manson comparison is flawed. Manson clearly incited murder. Trump did not clearly incite a riot. At the other end of the spectrum of the Manson comparison, Trump clearly isn't the Beatles either.
Trump clearly bears considerable responsibility. Does Trump bear criminal responsibility, I'd say probably not. 8 months of gaslighting is an awful thing to do to people and it had awful consequences, but Trump always stopped just shy of inciting a riot. Trump carefully played that same game with the White supremist/separatist movement; he always stopped shy of "waving swastika." He may speak in half sentences and broken English, but clearly Trump is usually very calculated in what he says. The real issue is the GOP (and it's base) won't hold those who bear responsibility responsible, Ted Cruz, Marjorie, Boebert, Trump, election deniers, etc. All the GOP leadership has to do is cut funding to campaigns that are largely based in election denial and that problem disappears.
