George Will: I’d like to see January 6 burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11 – By ALLAHPUNDIT (Hot Air) / May 24 2021
He should have chosen a different analogy, as people are losing their minds on social media over the fact that he’d dare compare 3,000 Americans being slaughtered to the Capitol riot. What a grotesque moral equivalence!
But I don’t understand him to be drawing a moral equivalence, any more than I would if he’d said that 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination were both grievous national traumas. His point was that the insurrection should shock the country’s civic conscience the way 9/11 or JFK’s murder shocked its moral conscience and sense of invincibility. None of those scars are the same, but they’re all scars, and they all run deep.
At least, they should run deep.
On controversy around Jan. 6 commission, WaPo syndicated columnist @GeorgeWill tells @GStephanopoulos: "We have something new in American history…a political party defined by the terror it feels for its own voters, that's the Republican party right now." https://t.co/lM8D2abTBM pic.twitter.com/Ig2uqfDcE1
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