Most of the Americans attending the rally on Wednesday (1/6/2021) probably did not expect they would be part of a mob the stormed the capital and beat a police officer to death.
They were upset about their voting rights being violated by a rigged election. That the election was a cheat and a steal. Why did they feel this way? There was no evidence to support a rigged election. The only reason there was any talk about a rigged election was that President Trump, seeing that he was losing the election on election night, started lying about election fraud. If it had just been Trump it may not have gone very far, however President Trump was supported by a number of congressmen, senators, and media outlets such as Fox News that propagated this lie.
These rally attendees felt they were patriots who had been cheated by the election. Why? President Trump had continued to whip his supporters into a frenzy to see how far he could push them. The right wing media and members of congress supported the President's lies by repeating them and casting doubt on America's electoral process.
Wednesday morning President Trump addressed the rally and asked his supporters to march to the capital in a show of strength. Many of his supporters were from far right groups such as QAnon and the Proud Boys. Some of them had brought handcuffs, Molotov cocktails, long guns, and pipe bombs. They believed they would be taking over congress, it would be a revolution.
In the end, one of the mob was shot and killed, several others died of health issues, and a policeman was beaten to death.
This is what happens when the president is allowed to propagate lies that undermine the foundations of our democracy.
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