More specifically, Bush alleged that those responsible for the crimes committed on both January 6, 2021 and September 11, 2001 were of the same ilk — “children of the same foul spirit.” (It is assumed that the domestic actors who allegedly disdain pluralism, disregard human life, and are determined to defile national symbols to which Bush referred in his speech are those connected with January 6 rather than the BLM rioters, looters, arsonists and murderers who rampaged through American cities and tore down monuments throughout the summer of 2020, although he never expressly distinguished his target).
Many howls of outrage erupted across the heartland at the perceived smear. I even heard lifelong Republicans meeting in a party headquarters building muttering about removing Bush’s portrait from the wall.
And to the extent that Bush meant to suggest that the protestors/tourists who entered the Capitol building on January 6, most of them at the invitation of the Capitol police, and most of whom just wandered around taking selfies before strolling back out again — with the officially-asserted al-Qaeda ...
