January 6 and October 7
Jason Garshfield | Dec 18, 2023
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If there is one tiny silver lining to the October 7 massacre in Israel, it is that it seems to have made Democrats and the media finally shut up about January 6, at least for now.
For nearly three years, we were told that the riot at the Capitol was one of the darkest days in American history, on par with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Kamala Harris said so, in as many words in her speech on the first anniversary of the riot: “Certain dates echo throughout history… Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory. December 7, 1941. September 11, 2001. And January 6, 2021.”
They could only get away with this comparison because the memory of those other days has faded. Most of us weren’t even alive for Pearl Harbor, and even for those of us who remember 9/11, the emotional impact has been softened over the intervening decades. If January 6 had happened in 2002, when the trauma of the planes hitting the towers was still freshly imprinted on Americans’ minds, no one would have been able to get away with saying that the two events were even on the same continuum of atrocity.
October 7 put this all into perspective again. Even though the attack happened on the other side of the globe, and most Americans have no personal connection to Israel, it was horrific enough to remind us all what a true “date which will live in infamy” looks like and that January 6 did not come close.
To be sure, January 6 was singular. It was a rare right-wing riot and one of the most severe security breaches of the United States Capitol since it was burned in the War of 1812. But singular does not necessarily equate to horrific. An absurdist tableau of idiots dressed as Vikings roaming through the Capitol – and even somewhat more malignant idiots attacking police – was simply not a manifestation of the same type of evil displayed on 9/11 and October 7.
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