Suffice it to say, no, that's not right. Minnesota had the most massive deployment of it's National Guard about 3 days after George Floyd's death. That was accelerated from the earlier plan to deploy them when bigger protests were planned at the end of May.
Ok, so, 3 days after the event there were large Nat'l Guard deployments. There were 1500 Nat'l Guard troops in the Capitol by, what, the 10th? That about checks out.
You need to stop thinking of Jan 6 as the start too, by the way. It's an event that was long planned and came after plenty of "Stop the Steal" rallies before.
Why should I? It was the first protest of its kind; just because with hindsight we know that many of the people participating in these were the same, doesn't mean they would require the same response anyways. Say what you will about the anti-mask protestors, those were peaceful protests, as were the earlier "stop the steal" folk.
There's one man on whom blame should be laid.
That there wasn't enough preparation isn't an accident either, we're finding out. The mayor of DC was denied her request to deploy the DC National Guard by the department of Defense, we now know. They were only allowed to be deployed to direct traffic, instead.
And there were inexplicable delays in deploying them after the Capitol was stormed too. It appears, from what we know now, that Trump wouldn't give the authorization, and eventually the acting Secretary of Defense deployed them after consulting with Pence. What that says about chain of command is a whole other kettle of fish.
It says an idiot with the arrogance of a child and the intelligence of a fish managed to get himself elected President of the United States of America based on channeling the collective anger of 74million people who believe they're being let down by the current political elite. It's sad and terrible, and he needs to be gone.
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