The New York Times said that the history of the United States is replete with incidents of political violence that are more bloody and destructive than the storming of the Congress building last Wednesday, which was incited by outgoing US President Donald Trump.
In an article written by a member of its editorial board, Brent Staples, the newspaper mentioned that despite this, the ignorance of the horrific past that historians have documented was painfully evident soon after the mob stormed Congress, where senior commentators on the event appeared to repeat in people's ear that what happened was an anomaly. It does not represent the American people.
The New York Times saw that this intended forgetfulness of US history, exacerbated by the myth of innocence of Americans, proved dangerous on various levels, as it led many Americans to view Trump's insistence on winning an election in which he had already lost, and his simultaneous embrace of right-wing extremism, as a political play. It will quietly disappear from the scene when Joe Biden becomes president of the United States.
The newspaper highlighted the error of logic that says, "What's wrong with mocking him? Trump will leave soon." It turns out that the Republicans in Congress, who followed Trump's trick, encouraged a mob, who were raised in presidential lies and believing the illusion that the president had stolen from him winning the election Presidential.
She said that the storming of Congress, which resulted in the deaths of 5 people, should make it clear to everyone that the possibility of an outbreak of political violence in America is like a river of gasoline, waiting for a demagogue like Trump, to throw a burning match into it.
The New York Times reported that the conditions that led to the storming and looting of the Congress building are similar to those witnessed in America in the nineteenth century, when the Southerners retreated from the era of allowing blacks to decide their fate known as the era of reconstruction, and unleashed the era of racial despotism.
During the elections last November, Trump echoed the rhetoric of Southern white supremacists during that bygone era, when he falsely confirmed the occurrence of widespread voting fraud in black-majority cities.
The author concluded that the days before a mob invaded Congress echoed many echoes of the intricately planned coup, which was carried out against the city government of Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898, when white supremacists overthrew a government that was elected through a coalition of representatives of African Americans. And liberal whites.