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January 6th Was No Big Deal—Unless You Love America
“January 6th was no big deal. It was a nothing burger!”
These were the eloquent words of a beer can-wielding senior citizen, who through some confluence of happenstance, lousy luck, and poor choices, I found myself sitting uncomfortably close to in a North Carolina hotel hut tub.
It was nearly eighteen months after the January 6th, 2021 insurrection, and this sweaty, inebriated stranger was loudly proselytizing some Fox News Gospel gaslight version of the attack on our Capitol, detailing the apparent ways the “lamestream media” had somehow manipulated the footage, manufactured any actual…
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