🚨 🚨 Lessons Unlearned A 🧵 A disputed election result. A violent attempt to overthrow it. A court that wiped out any accountability. And an election that followed where those who orchestrated the violence end up as the victors. 1/ - ThreadSky

davidpepperoh.bsky.social • 88 days ago

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Lessons Unlearned

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A disputed election result. A violent attempt to overthrow it. A court that wiped out any accountability.

And an election that followed where those who orchestrated the violence end up as the victors.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•88 days ago

It’s a fact pattern we saw come to its disturbing conclusion this week, with the dismissal of the January 6 indictments against Trump and others.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•88 days ago

And it’s also a fact pattern from the distant past that still haunts us today (and, no accident, a lesson that is too often shrouded by the censorship of the darkest parts of our history).

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•88 days ago

The parallels to today will disturb you.

And the incident is also another example of how the victors rewrite history—and in this case, those victors buried the truth for close to a century. The incident and case are still virtually unknown today.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•88 days ago

And that may be one reason why the clear lesson from the past—that political violence must face swift and decisive accountability, or the violence and lawlessness only continue—was ignored by the powers that be in far too many institutions (starting with the failure to impeach)

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•88 days ago

for too long, to the point where the January 6 indictments are no more.

History warns us that lack of accountability poses real danger going forward.

Here is that history: https://open.substack.com/pub/davidpepper/p/lesson-unlearned-when-political-violence?r=17y7a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web