Pelosis Jan. 6 narrative collapsing, Democrats deaf to voters and other commentary

Jan.6 was not “an insurrection,” but “a protest that became a riot when a woefully insufficient security plan collapsed,” argues Jonathan Turley at The Hill.Nancy Pelosi’s “House Select Committee to investigate Jan.

6” pushed the narrative that it “ was an attempt to overthrow our democracy by Trump and his supporters,” but “fostered false accounts” and dismissed evidence that “confirmed that Trump did, in fact, offer the deployment of the National Guard in anticipation of the protest.”Now a new report “shows that it was the Defense Department that delayed the eventual deployment of National Guard in the critical hours of the riot.”“None of this means that Trump” is “without fault in this matter,” but “these reports only further highlight what we still do not know about that day.”“The first step to any recovery is admitting you have a problem,” argues The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.Yet Democrats “won’t admit that their policies are the cause.”From his “bubble,” California Gov.

Gavin Newsom “ordered a special legislative session to ’Trump-proof’ California’s progressive policies, such as its electric-vehicles mandate.”New York Gov.Kathy Hochul “revived a $9 tax on commuters driving into lower Manhattan” days after Trump’s win.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “is seeking to raise taxes on homeowners” to “pay the city’s soaring pension bills.”Those “high taxes are driving off businesses and residents.” Democrats may “recognize their political problem but their solution is to pour another shot.”“In a parallel universe,” snarks The Free Press’ Peter Savodnik, “progressives would be rallying around” Rep.

Seth Moulton for expressing fear that trans athletes could injure his daughters in sports.Yet “in this universe,” they “hate him.”Progressives “have called him a ‘Nazi cooperator,’ ‘transphobic,’ and ‘offensive,’ ” and demanded he resig...