Hearing Rep. Adam Kinzinger talk to Karen Friedman Agnifilo about the Jan6 insurrection was an ear-opening moment for this American.
Curious about what Adam was thinking and feeling as the mob was assaulting our US House of Representatives, where Adam was serving as Rep from Indiana, Karen asked him: “When you were in your office . . .was there any part of you—as a combat veteran— who wanted to go out and physically defend the Capitol?"
Their conversation on the MeidasTouch network—the Legal AF program—revealed Adam’s answer:
“Yeah, there was a sense of that . . . anger, and I wanna go fight these guys. There’s also a sense of . . . I’ve gotta just survive! “
As one of only two Republicans on the US House Select Committee to investigate the Jan6 attack, Adam’s comments here reveal a profoundly dangerous mob assault that, since then, has changed the very definition of what it means to serve in our US House of Representatives, because it was suddenly and unexpectedly being attacked by an angry mob whose rage had been amped up by an angry loser with a big mouth and not much respect for our Constitution and our Capitol.
As I recommend you to watch and listen to this MeidasTouch interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKRQmo4IWs ,
I’ll show you a few of Adam’s comments:
On why he joined the committee: His early thoughts were:
“Do I want to do this? No. But could I not do it? The answer is No."
I’m a big believer in: your legacy matters. When you’re given an opportunity to serve in any capacity, but particularly in this capacity. . . you want to be able, at the end of your life, to know that you did everything you could with that moment. I knew I couldn’t say no.”
“Ive been all over the world as a Foreign Affairs Committee member, and as a military (US Air Force pilot) member, and what I recognize is: Democracy is the hardest form of government, because it requires a basic level of trust among different parties . . . Democrats, Republicans. What we have to agree on is w’ere gonna play by the rules of democracy—how elections are done. . .
Democracies are not defined by bad days’; we’re defined by how we came back from bad days. . . and I knew . . . if we couldn’t restore a basic level of trust and understanding in democracy, we are in real trouble. . . I (we) had just had a new kid—18 months now—and I know that he’s got 70, 80, 90 from here that he’s gotta live in this country. . .”
“BTW, I think there’s a lot of people who are gonna have . . . deep regrets. . . I had been very outspoken against trump, pretty much the whole time I’d been in Congress."
"When that election happened and he tweeted something about stop the votes being stolen. . . that shatters the basic compact (upon which democracy is founded). . . that’s when I went completely off the (trump) train.”
So. . . y'all, having caught a bit of Adam's testimony here, I'll leave it with you, my fellow citizens. That’s about all the space this blogger has room for here. On YouTube, go to the MeidasTouch Network interview to hear the rest of their conversation. Adam's experience and his testimony may give you some helpful direction in trying to figure out what the hell is happening to this nation and what we need to do about it. Adam is a wise man, with an amazing array of experience under his belt. The people of Illinois did well in electing him.
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