This Is Who We Are

History Against the Grain

Hate to say we told you so, but....

On Wednesday, January 6 the coup plotters from the firm of Trump, Hawley, Giuliani, and Cruz made their bid, and like a scene from a horror movie, sent a horde of angry villagers up the hill to attack the castle. Adrenalized by a go-get-em speech from America’s grifter-in-chief, the MAGA maulers might have pulled it off, might have prevented the transfer of power with their wrestlemania cum kristalnacht autogolpe madness, if they’d only not stopped to take so many dang selfies in the Rotunda. Before the smoke had even cleared, Mr. Grifter serenaded the stormtroops with a “we love you” White House valentines videogram. Meanwhile, on a smaller stage in a converted community theater in Wilmington, Delaware, an astonished Pres.-elect sought to reassure us that “the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not represent a true America.” You sure Joe? Maybe ask the guy with the Confederate flag, or check how many of those selfies involved any of the nine Confederate heroes featured in the Capitol’s statuary hall. Was it just “a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness,” like ol’ Joe said? With the blood still fresh on their hands, later in the day 147 Republican congressmen voted to overturn the election. Like the man said, it ain’t over til it’s over, and this coup American style appears far from over.

Join us this week as Josh and our special guest co-host Edward Hashima sort through the rubble of recent events, and question whether the madness is really outside the ‘trajectory of American history,’ as some insist, or if in fact this is who we are.