One Year On -- We Should Listen To The Wise, And Well-Informed "EmptyWheel": This Was A Large Number Of Coordinated Seditionists.

Do go read the whole of her piece this morning from Ireland. In fact, you should be reading her entire blog, every day -- if you are concerned about this fragile, but vibrant American experiment in democracy -- and what threats Tangerine still presents to it.

I'll note that ever since Dick Cheney's man-sized safe (2002), she's been better informed, by actually reading documents from FOIA responses and federal courts, than 99.999 per cent of all MSM journalists, about the dangerous alleys the GOP has now made its main street. Here's her concluding bit -- about how the Dubar's number is about 5X what most humans can keep track of, related to all the actors -- leaders and followers, in the aftermath of January 6, 2021:

. . .I have spent the better part of the year working full time, with few days off, trying to understand (and help others understand) January 6. I’ve got a clear (though undoubtedly partial) vision of how it all works -- how the tactical developments in the assault on the Capitol connect directly back to actions Donald Trump took. Zoe Tillman, one of a handful of other journalists who is attempting to track all these cases (while parenting a toddler and covering other major judicial developments) has a piece attempting to do so with a summary of the numbers. But both those methods are inadequate to the task. . . .

But thus far, that clear vision remains largely unknowable via the normal ways the general public learns. That’s why, I think, people like Lawrence Tribe are so panicked: because even beginning to understand this thing is, quite literally, a full time job, even for those of us with the luxury of living an ocean away. In Tribe’s case, he has manufactured neglect out of what he hasn’t done the work to know. To have something that poses such an obvious risk to American democracy remain so unknowable, so mysterious — to not be able to make sense of the mob that threatens democracy -- makes it far more terrifying.

I know a whole lot about what is knowable about the January 6 investigation. But one thing I keep realizing is that it remains unknowable. . . .

Onward, into a slightly more somber sunshine, here. . . be excellent to all you meet today. Many may still be overwhelmed -- by the events of the past year, to say nothing of the last five.

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