I’ll grant that riots and military deployments to keep order look “bad” from any persoective. Whether in general, “optics” are good or bad is just a matter of perspective.
I might view the NG forcing order on an unruly crowd as a good thing. Note how the defense and security personnel named in this article almost all viewed the J6 events from the perspective of Democrat Party interests.
Consider the “optics” of this alternative scenario:
NG is sent in pre-riot; riots never happen; Electoral College meets on schedule; certain pro-Trump Congresspeople and Senators object to specific delegations; the process is suspended while State legislatures review their elections and change from Biden to Trump electors. Let’s posit that this reverses the outcome and Trump ends up being re-elected.
From a Dem perspective, the National Guard would have been the force that enabled a “coup” (even if the Guard had no political motives at all). That is the “optics” the Dems didn’t want. Pelosi needed a crisis to justify declaring an Emergency to forestall challenges to Elector Slates.
Friendly National Guardsmen helping the crowd stay orderly woud destroy Pelosi’s strategy.
Where was Dorothy with that bucket of water when we needed her?
......the defense and security personnel named in this article almost all viewed the J6 events from the perspective of Democrat Party interests.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes, that began with Obama, where federal agencies substituted Democrat Party interests for the Constitution.
Keeping liberty order is a duty under the Constitution, not a matter of party optics. The Dems run wars based on PR imagery. And thats why they lose wars and try to cover up their PR shenanigans while people die.
J6 was espionage condicted by the FBI, DOJ, CIA and Nancy Pelosi. IMHO they wre set up to assassinate President Trump but he did not go to the Capitol like they assumed he would, and so they created this circus show as a plan B.The pipe bombs had been prepared for the assassination but were later disarmed and left as red herrings?
I realy have developed a singular dislike for Democrats.I think the nation is getting there too.
OJur agencies nolonger follow the Constitution, they follow Democrat Party interests. This is the reason we now live in a fascist nation.