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As angry as many of us are with leaders who enabled the lies and destructive rhetoric that led to this moment in our history, based on my counter-extremism experience, I want to emphasize that it is critical to allow people to repent. https://twitter.com/macjaeh/status/1347546250522947584
Often it takes a shocking moment to bring people to an "inflection" point, as Betsy DeVos called it. As a counterterrorism analyst and researcher, I saw this in country after country as AQ and ISIS rose.
Closer to home, consider our own Civil Rights movement and the impact that shocking events had in moving attitudes and legislation in the 1960s -- and in 2020.
This is the first essential step in bringing our country back together. We should not forget, but we should be prepared to forgive honest repentance. It will be hard to know at first if repentance is real, but we must allow people the chance or nothing will change.
We do need to call things by their right names, like "insurrection", and prosecute those who committed crimes, or there is no justice and a terrible precedent would be set.
But we also need to engage in honest dialogue out of compassion for each other and to heal these divisions. People do change their views. Wounds do heal. Have faith.
