Crash Course: Trump better beware! Proud Boys guilty verdict shows America wants Jan. 6 ringleaders to pay

Once again, a jury shows they're more interested in punishing the seditious generals than the foot soldiers [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZ2xzMDh5aWY4by8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzBXA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMW5qczB5MGVraC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Trump better beware! Proud Boys guilty verdict shows America wants Jan. 6 ringleaders to pay In the days and hours before the jury finally brought back a verdict in the [Proud Boys](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvb2tvdG9memlsMS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) trial, there was a dour mood in much of the coverage. Journalists worked overtime to lower expectations that these particular insurrectionists would taste real justice for what they did on January 6. The initial word was that the jury returned a "partial verdict." The prevailing assumption was that some of the lower-ranking of the five Proud Boys on trial may be convicted of lesser crimes involving the violence of the Capitol riot, but that the jury would balk at some of the more serious charges, such as seditious conspiracy. Audiences were especially warned that [Enrique Tarrio](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvejh4c3U2OWFzdy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), the then-leader of the Proud Boys, might get off scot-free, as he had not been at the Capitol that day. Then the opposite happened. 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Donald Trump woke up a numb country — and Joe Biden faces a higher bar now There is an argument to be made that this country never got over [the assassination of John F. Kennedy](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYW02NTg1ajFsMy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). The optimism and idealism seen in our culture in the early '60s died when Kennedy did. Nothing illustrates that more than in Kennedy's national challenge to be the first country to reach the moon. We did this in his name with pride, and 60 years after his death millions of [people are convinced it was staged](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmN2bBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOWcwOTIwYnVzZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTA4cm1odnJlbzAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZFHB4VRkPNhm8VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and shot on a sound stage in Hollywood. Mind you, with a strong enough telescope you can see the landers we left on the moon, but that is lost on a culture today whose national hubris of Kennedy's Camelot has disintegrated into a turgid stench of misogyny, racism, sexism and fear. 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