Word Warriors

   Watch for the Republican Party to accelerate its campaign to persuade the world that the events of Jan. 6 were a peaceful demonstration by Trump supporters, and whatever incidents of unruly behavior did occur were perpetrated by minority civil rights protestors and Democratic supporters of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
   TV programs now show a split screen of a Republican defender of the Trumpistas on one side and video of the riotous attack on the Capitol on the other side.
   None of this, however, stops Trump supporters from pointing to problems involving civil rights demonstrators, no matter now minor. As if protesting, "They did it first," excuses the behavior of the rioters.