The Demise of the Actual ”Big Lie”

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tore into Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing clips from official videos that reveal the events of January 6, 2021 did not amount to a “violent insurrection.”  

The now-available evidence establishes that, compared with what Democrats and their media proxies insisted were “mostly peaceful demonstrations” as Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs sacked cities across the country in 2020, violence in the Capitol that day, while deplorable, was exceptional, limited and at least some of it apparently caused by provocateurs.  

Sen. Schumer declared, “When people don’t believe elections are on the level, that’s the beginning of the end of this bold experiment in democracy.” Actually, the beginning would be when, as in 2020, the public has abundant reason to believe elections are not free and fair – notwithstanding “Big Lies” from him and other partisans.  

This is Frank Gaffney.