Contributed by Huhnkie Lee
Greetings everyone, this is Huhnkie Lee, who plans to run for U.S. Senate in Alaska in 2022 as a Republican. We hope and pray that you, our fellow Alaskans, are surviving and thriving in these difficult times.
Roughly in January of 2020, COVID happened. Federal and state governments mandated lockdown at homes and shutdown of businesses. People are social animals by nature, and when they are isolated from others, they experience stress called cabin fever.
During the COVID lockdown/shutdown, the only way for people to legally get outside homes and to legally get together is to protest for something. Protesting is a constitutional, 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech, assembly and petition of grievances. As Americans have been in house arrest for five months from January to May of 2020, anything could have triggered the piled-up stress of Americans’ pandemic stress and isolation and boredom.
It just happened that Mr. George Floyd’s sad passing got filmed and broadcast over social media. Democrats took the opportunity to get outside their homes and to get together en masse, finally. That’s one way to look at the post-COVID, post-Floyd BLM protests: it was neither an ideological phenomenon nor a political protest. It was merely a case of catharsis, a letting-it-all-out event, getting the accumulated stress out of the system. It’s physical, rather.
Now, Republicans have awaited their chance, as it turned out. Republicans are people too, you see. Perhaps they were able to hold it a little bit longer. Then November 2nd election loss happened. Republicans waited more. Till January 6th, 2021, Republicans have waited all the whole one year to let out their pandemic stress, finally.
Republicans find it hard to believe that there could be some Americans, mostly Democrats, who genuinely believe that there is nothing wrong with LGBT ideology or LGBT lifestyle. Likewise, Democrats find it hard to believe that there could be some Americans, mostly Republicans, who genuinely believe that one former President Trump won the reelection. What’s the reason behind these Americans believing in unbelievable things, such as soundness of LGBT-ism or Mr. Trump’s reelection victory?
One possible answer is that humans are political animals and in politics, it’s all about identity. In order to heighten the sense of political identity, one must distinguish oneself from others. Democrats perhaps know in their heart that there is no rationality in LGBT-ism whatsoever. Then why do Democrats still insist on pro-LGBT-ism? Perhaps in order to distinguish themselves from Republicans, who are mostly Christians, whose bible expressly disapprove LGBT-ism.
Now, Republicans, perhaps know in their heart, that the former President Trump lost the reelection fair and square. With all due respect, President Trump failed to complete the border wall building. His economic boom was so easily blown away by winds of COVID/BLM: an evidence that President Trump’s economic policy has an unsound foundation. When COVID came to America from China, he was quick to blame China for it, rather than focusing on solving the problem. And alas, he listened to the unwise white house doctors and executed the ill-advised policy of national lockdown/shutdown.
Then BLM happened. President Trump declared that he’s a law-and-order president. But talk is cheap. Was he able to stop the crimes of BLM-ists that include vandalism, arson, burglary, theft? He failed to stop it. And Americans saw his repeated failures. In this writer’s opinion, that’s why President Trump lost his reelection bid. And the rest is history.
What happened next? President Trump started to engage in wishful thinking. His supporters, Republicans, did not want to live the next 4 years under President Biden, who is too liberal for Republicans’ taste. So, many Republicans joined in President’s daydreaming and fantasy-thinking. This group-think fantasy may have been the cause of 1-6-2021 incident.
The second impeachment Senate trial ensued. Is President Trump guilty? No, most Republican Senators said, acquitting him. But, in criminal law, is President Trump guilty of anything? Possibly. What crime? At least involuntary manslaughter. I am sorry to say this, my fellow Republicans. But let’s say what needs to be said for the sake of education of future generations. Yes, we want our descendants to be bigger, better, and more righteous than us, our current generation.
In criminal law, the three-step analysis of culpability is as follows: wrong-doing, damage, and causation. Did President Trump do something wrong? Did anybody suffer damage? And did President’s wrongdoing cause those people’s damage?
Let’s do the damage part first. Hundreds of people went to jail, lost jobs, damaged their reputations after 1-6-2021. Seven people died after 1-6-2021, including two suicides. President Trump preached ‘stop-the-steal’, leading people to believe that the election was fraudulent. He invited people to D.C. on Jan.6.
Was violence foreseeable? Let’s apply the reasonable person’s standard. Certification of election was occurring in the Capitol. To ‘stop-the-steal’, people need to get in the building. There are police officers blocking the way. People will need to commit violence to overcome the police barrier. Some people might get injured or die. They did.
Solution? Let President Trump donate 10 million dollars to the victims of his crime: Jan.6 Pro-Trumpers.