Democrats reaction to Jan. 6 has become as deranged as the original riots

 Washington Examiner:

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a disgrace and a travesty Americans should remember and learn from. But Democrats, rather than try to discern the underlying cultural problems, are turning their inquiry into a partisan show.

Democrats pretend they care about political violence and efforts to undermine our democracy. Really, they care about making Republicans look bad.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a bill this week that would establish a Democratic-controlled select House committee to investigate the Capitol riot after Republicans blocked an earlier proposal that would have created a bipartisan, bicameral commission.

Republicans voted against the first commission because it was bound to become a politicized headache that would get in the way of the facts. One only needs to glance at comments Democrats have made about Jan. 6 to understand Republicans were right: Democrats absurdly equated the Capitol riot to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and claimed Jan. 6 was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” to quote President Joe Biden.

Both of these claims were ridiculous, as Democrats (and any persons remotely familiar with U.S. history) well knew. But they exaggerated the riot anyway to create a political cudgel to hammer Republicans any time they pleased. It’s for this same reason Pelosi wants a Democratic Jan. 6 committee: She hopes it will produce electoral fodder her candidates can use against Republicans — some of whom were involved in the events of that day, but many of whom were not — in 2022, 2024, and beyond.

And don't believe their inquiry is born from a real concern over political violence. They were slow to denounce the leftist violence that overtook many of America’s cities last summer, even as businesses were destroyed, police stations attacked, and innocent bystanders caught in the middle. Some leftists even defended these riots or dismissed them as “mostly peaceful protests.”

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Democrats actually cheered the political violence of the left and people like Kamala Harris posted bail for some of the perps responsible for the violence and said they thought there should be more riots.  That was their mantra until it was turned on them.   The Democrats have zero credibility on this issue and their continuation of trying to politicize criminal acts is a disgrace.