The January 6 riot remains what I called it two years ago: a big, embarrassing brawl that was not a political coup. However, we now know that many of the more prominent media narratives about “J6” were basically lies, and that matters very much because it is part of a national trend.
First, it is important to admit — especially for those of us on the honest right — that new revelations drawn from the 41,000 hours of uncensored video just released to Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy do not change many things we know about a notably unpleasant day. January 6 was not simply a hastily arranged tour of the U.S. Capitol building, put together for a bunch of weary travelers who for some reason happened to be carrying batons and zip ties. Fighting between police and rioters lasted more than an hour, according to the documents I have seen, and injured dozens of officers.
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