David Krayden: The J6 Insurrection Fable is the Democrats’ Big Lie

The Democratic Party and President Joe Biden may have been the first to insinuate power in a mythological rebellion by their opponents.

An embarrassing riot broke out on Capitol Hill Jan. 6, 2022. It was not a good experience for anyone. It was not an insurrection. However, you can still call it that. Washington’s Jan. 6 riot is the worst-planned and executed insurrection ever recorded.

The Jan. 6 fiasco is now the turning point for Democrats. They have branded former President Trump, his supporters, and increasingly all Republicans as a grave danger to democracy. has said It’s comparable to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Democrats have cleverly and shrewdly transformed a small event into their main reason why Americans shouldn’t vote for Republicans.

Biden and Democrats have engaged in an absurd exercise of political mayhem which was encouraged by FBI. This allowed them to make history, something that authoritarian regimes are known for. Jan. 6, like many other events, is so obscured by obfuscation & sleight that the lies just keep on getting bigger and more absurd.

The second anniversary “insurrection,” the number of police officers allegedly killed in the riot has climbed to five. Speaking on Friday about the event, Biden said “These people and the people representing those who couldn’t be here because they gave their lives for this did, is incredibly consequential. That’s not political talk. That’s historical fact.”

That’s a lie. The only person to die in the Capitol Hill riot was a 14-year United States Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt. She was shot by Capitol police officer Lt. Michael Byrd and she later died of her injuries. Byrd’s previous claim to notoriety was his leaving his gun in the men’s room at Capitol Hill.

To add insult to death, Capitol Police arrested Babbitt’ mother, Micki Witthoeft, 58, for holding a memorial service for her daughter. The cops charged her with two traffic violations. That’s not just petty, it’s insane.

But it’s one thing to lie about what happened on Jan. 6 but quite another to make that day a defining day for America’s democracy.

Other regimes have reimagined their revolutions and lied about their own insurrections but I can’t think of another – and certainly not in the democratic world — that has concocted such a story about their political opponents.

The Soviet Union created a false narrative about the October Revolution of 1917 and the occupation of Czar Nicholas’ Winter Palace. Although the Bolsheviks took advantage of a power vacuum in then-Petrograd and virtually walked into the palace unopposed, Bolshevik leader Vladmir Lenin enshrined the moment in a completely fictitious filmed reenactment from 1920 that claimed hundreds of communists were killed taking the Russian summer capitol. That lie became an integral part of Soviet history and the communist mythology that surrounded it. The Soviets repeated the lie so often that it eventually became part of the official record and few people in the West refuted the story.

The Nazis had their Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup d’état by Adolf Hitler against the Bavarian government that was supposed to expand to a march on Berlin and the assumption of power. Nothing worked out for the Nazis that night, that didn’t stop the Nazis from using this comedy of errors as a source of propaganda, and another Big Lie.

There is a similar kind of misleading going on with the Democratic version of Jan. 6. Are they not promulgating fabled heroes and villains? They ran a series of ridiculous committee meetings around the riot. These hearings were more than vaguely reminiscent of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s where enemies of the state were paraded in front of the cameras and forced to confess to outrageous charges of treason and sabotage.

The real legacy of Jan. 6 is that the investigation into this brouhaha has become the largest in the history of the FBI. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protestors remain in jail for participating in an imagined insurrection that was most certainly partially engineered by the FBI itself. Talk about job creation.

America’s once-vaunted national police force and the Department of Justice have become dangerously politicized institutions that seek out, harass and prosecute opponents of the Biden regime.

The lies of Jan. 6 are becoming more entrenched two years later because we have a president who either cannot or will not differentiate between history and falsehood; between the facts and virulent political propaganda.

When the new Republican-controlled House starts its broad Inquiry It must provide some detail to the FBI and other security agencies about Jan. 6. This should be presented as an unfortunate day which has been inexplicably and unjustifiably transformed into a moment of political terror.