Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
We’ve learned some new terms in recent years.
“Insurrection” is one of them. And “lawfare.”
“Insurrection” is a favorite word thrown around by Democrats, journalists, squishy Republicans and legacy media consumers when discussing the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
“We saw it all,” they will tell you — an insurrection, with MAGA rioters carrying Trump, American and Gadsden flags climbing the walls of the Capitol, pushing aside police, threatening Congress, committing unspeakable terror on the scale of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or even the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Or as Time Magazine this week said: “… a pro-Trump mob attacked the center of American democracy in an effort to subvert the peaceful transfer of power …”
But unlike 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, where some 3,000 died in each incident, only one person was killed on Jan. 6 — unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, shot …
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