From tech platforms to airlines, industry to government, the United States is identifying and eliminating MAGA extremists, many of whom stormed the US Capitol last week after being incited by Trump, which resulted in violence, chaos, and five deaths. Dozens of so-called “protesters” are being arrested on the basis of photos and transmitted footage, sometimes by themselves, of their violent insurrection. Many are regretting and backing down on their support for Trump as they lose jobs and lose face in civil society, even as the established Republican Party is distancing itself from the disgraced president.
Trump and his Twitter fetish have been shut down, and Big Tech has shut down the efforts of the outgoing president and his supporters to target an alternative platform better suited to their extremist and conspiratorial views and lies. On Saturday, Amazon joined Google, Apple and Twitter in turning off the extremist tap and told Parler, the echo chamber on the right, that it will lose access to servers.
Airlines, airline pilots, and admin bodies have reported that MAGA individuals exhibiting rude and rude behavior will not be welcome on board and will make it onto banned person lists.
In an incident over the weekend, the pilot of an American Airlines flight from Washington DC to Phoenix warned that he would land in the middle of Kansas to dispose of rebel MAGA “patriots” who chanted slogans as they returned from Trump’s rally. In a video posted online, the pilot is heard saying, “So be it … it’s a four-and-a-half hour flight to Phoenix … We left this plane in central Kansas and we will drop people off – I don’t care. We’ll do that if that’s what it takes, so please behave yourself. ”
Excoriated across the board for his incitement and invective, a beleaguered Trump, who said he will not be silenced, has a hard time reaching his supporters without social media and the mainstream press echoing his message, as he did for more. four years. All but his staunch allies are deserting him amid reports that Vice President Mike Pence has taken over the cabinet to help transition as the clock runs out with ten days to go.
The two men (Trump and Pence) haven’t seen each other or spoken to for several days. The vice president is said to be deeply upset by the Trump-sparked MAGA mob roaming the halls of Congress looking for him and chanting “Hang Mike Pence.” A rope was hung from a wooden gallows installed by the mob outside the Capitol, and an Air Force combat veteran photographed in zip-lock handcuffs, prompting hostage-taking fears, has been arrested.
On Saturday, Twitter removed the grotesque hashtag “HangMikePence” that was briefly trending. Trump reportedly hasn’t even bothered to call Pence to ask for his safety after the vice president and his family had to take refuge in the Capitol building to escape the MAGA hordes. Their breakup is now very public and obvious. Pence’s aides have said he will attend Biden’s inauguration; Trump has said he will not.
The political rift has divided the Republican Party, with the establishment wing willing to allow, if not support, the Democrats to begin the impeachment process on Monday. Over the weekend, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey joined the ranks of Trump’s critics, saying the president “descended to a level of insanity and engaged in absolutely unthinkable and inexcusable activity.”
Trump has also not called the family of the Capitol cop who was killed by the MAGA mob, although according to friends, he was a Trump supporter. In fact, family members of several Trump supporters, including a woman who died in the stampede, blame the defeated president for unleashing the violence. “I personally believe that the president’s words incited a riot that killed four of his biggest fans,” said the family of Rosanne Boyland, who was trampled to death in the Capitol Rotunda.
The grandmother of a Virginia Republican lawmaker who was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct blamed Trump for the violence, and the 18-year-old daughter of a Trump supporter tripped her mother by posting a video of her injured in the violence with the message: “Hi Mom, do you remember the time you told me I shouldn’t go to the BLM protests because they could get violent … is that you?”
Many Trump supporters, prominent or not, are doubting a president who preyed on a poisonous racist streak in America, even as some liberals have begun putting together watch lists to remind them of their staunch support for a man they see as ” unhinged “. “warning facilitators that they will not have a pretty future in civil society.
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