Oops. Sorry about that coup d'état

     "You say you want a revolution.
      Well, you know
      We all want to change the world

               The Beatles, Revolution

Trump was open about it. He told everyone he wouldn't accept the election result unless he won.

He tried a dozen different ways to overthrow the election, just like he said he would. That was OK with most Republicans. It still is. 

Most Republicans are embarrassed by the Capitol invasion itself, the four hours of vandalism, attempted kidnapping, and the part where people use American flagpoles as weapons to break people and things. That part looked bad. The part where Trump watched it live on TV for six hours doing nothing, before finally consenting to the frantic urging of this staff to tell people that he loved them but they should go home--that looks bad, too.

But the rest of it was OK, or at least OK-enough,  the part where elections are cast aside, and judges' decisions are ignored, and where a president pressures and threatens criminal action against election officials in the states, and where he urges Congress to refuse to count votes of states where he lost.

Some Republican elites have moved on from Trump, but Republican voters and audiences have not.  Fox is changing their lineup: Less news at primetime, and more red meat pro-Trump opinion hosts. I watch Christian broadcast stations choosing Trump over Christ, a good business decision for them. They have an audience and advertisers to keep happy. Bearing false witness isn't a sin if one is defaming a Democrat, and the audience wants to hear what it wants to hear.

But aren't there "good Republicans" I am asked? Don't some Republicans object?  Some. They get attacked and censured. People paying attention know which way the wind is blowing and it is better to keep one's head down. As William Butler Yeats wrote: 

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

In Yeats' poem, The Second Coming, written in the aftermath of The Great War, he predicted mankind would look to a new Messiah, some "rough beast." Surely that prediction is too gloomy for 2021, a century after that was written. Surely mankind, Christians especially, would set their sights higher than Trump. Apparently not.

Before readers re-read "The Second Coming,"' shown below, let's try something new in this blog, a comic video. We experienced an insurrection and the perpetrators want to laugh it off. We could all use a laugh.

Mrs. Betty Bowers, the "World's Best Christian," has a comment. 

The video is a little over four minutes. 

Use this link: https://youtu.be/nMHviQunXBA

Or this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHviQunXBA&feature=youtu.be

The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?