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No, that is a ridiculous whataboutism, those protests were not instigated or supported by the opposition politicians, and the scale and purpose of those protest

• ALittleLight 4y ago
  Hillary Clinton and friends claimed the election was illegitimate and that it was stolen by Russian influence and/or hackers. Clinton supporters then violently attacked Trump's inauguration. I would agree there is a difference in scale - more violence at the January 6th thing and more incendiary rhetoric from Trump's camp, but I don't think there is a difference in kind. They are both the same kind of thing. I would say they are both protests that got out of control and turned violent. You seem to be saying the January 6th thing is a coup, but it's odd that you don't describe the fundamentally similar Trump inauguration thing the same way. Finally, on the subject of the difference in scale, I would just say that it doesn't seem particularly meaningful because there is a massive difference between a real coup attempt (say, the 2016 Turkish coup) and January 6th. The difference in scale between January 6th and Trump's inauguration protests is relatively slight.
  • kmos17 4y ago
    Hillary conceded defeat the day following the election, Trump still hasn’t to this day and continues the grift based on his lie of stolen election all the while destroying our democracy and fulfilling Putin’s long term goals. It’s pathetic how many republicans know this to be the truth but just won’t come out publicly about it, just see what they were saying on Jan 7 vs. now. Our democracy is circling the drain with the kind of bs being peddled.
    • ALittleLight 4y ago
      Hillary Clinton continues has said multiple times since, and I believe continues to think, that Trump's election was illegitimate and that Russia hacked the election. Conceding and continuing to argue that the other person is an illegitimate President is basically what Clinton and Trump did. Again - maybe Trump does it a bit more but it is the same kind of thing.