The Jan 6 'Wrongfully Imprisoned' Will Soon Be Among Us Again

Society punished them, but that society is now gone. They return as heroes.

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The similarities are there if you are willing to open your eyes and look past the heavy baggage the word Nazi carries. Most people are historically uninformed, so they fall back on the more emotional aspects of words and historical events. In Weimar Germany of 1933, the Nazi Party was one of several, and when Hitler became the Reich Chancellor, it was the communists who were gaining in popularity. Hitler’s Nazi Party has lost seats in the November 1932 election. 

In 1933, the Nazi Party still wasn’t the Nazi Party of 1945. While Hitler was working hard to unite Germans with a violent hatred for Jews, much of it was regarded by most as just rhetoric. A substantial number of Jews in Germany voted for the Austrian corporal. The Nazi Party in 1933 was just one of the more radical parties of the day, and few believed Hitler would do what he did. Most feared him, but most also thought that someone would stop him before it went too far.

This is where the Party of Donald Trump is today. It stands on the precipice of history, and only a fool would ignore the rhetoric of a man everyone thought would be stopped, but time after time, the guardrails fell away at the very last moment, letting him soar further than anyone could have ever expected. There was a similar sentiment in Hitler’s day. Just when he seemed down and out, he rose from the ashes more powerful than before.

Hitler’s January 6th was November 8th and 9th — Trump’s November 8th and 9th was Hitler’s January 6th. Hitler was captured and went to prison for a couple of years. That is where he wrote his book, “My Struggle,” which many historians called his plan for what he would do if he ever seized power. Similar to Project 25 today, few people back then read Hitler’s ramblings because it was just not a fun read. But it was a plan, indeed, and like Hitler, Trump was counting on no one delving too deeply into Project 25, his plan for ending American democracy.

Hitler, ever the aggrieved and always whining about something, began celebrating November 8th and 9th as glorious days for the great Nazi movement. A flag with the swastika that had been carried that day in Munich when the police and military violently suppressed Hitler’s coup attempt became the symbol of their suffering. Newly-recruited Brown Shirts would touch the flag and swear their loyalty to Hitler and the movement. The flag reminds me of the Trump flags we see all over America and the ones we saw flying so “proudly” on January 6th.

When Hitler finally seized power and then dismantled the government so that all power was in his hands, making him Germany’s dictator, the spot in Munich, seen above in the image, became hallowed ground. Everyone who died on November 9th, 1923, was immortalized. The coup participants, long considered traitors to Germany, were made heroes. The “brave warriors” were regaled in the new Germany. 

“I told you I wasn’t a loser,” many a man snarled at wives and family members who had mocked them for their role in that failed coup of 1923. 

On January 20th, 2025, Donald Trump is expected to pardon the rioters still imprisoned. Proud Boys’ leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the January 6th insurrection. He will likely be pardoned. The seditious traitors and disgraced Americans who tried to do what had never been done before in our nation’s history will be freed and welcomed back into society like conquering heroes. The new history will be written, and it will tell us that what they did was right and heroic.

How many of the freed and pardoned will tell their wives, family members, and anyone listening: “See, what I did that day was good for our country. I’m not a loser. I am a hero.”

No, you’re mistaken. You are losers, and one day, maybe, history will reflect this sentiment — but not now, not in the new America at least.