Republican Lawmakers Telegraphed War-time Cues Urging Riots

“Today is 1776,” said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO.)

Boebert, an ardent Trump supporter and QAnon conspiracy theorist has spent her entire campaign and first days in Congress crafting doomsday status updates on Twitter and the controversial far-right social media platform Parler. In the days leading up to the tragic riots that saw Trump supporters siege the US Capitol building as lawmakers inside gathered to certify the results of the 2020 election, US Senators and Representatives strongly allied with Trump had used their platforms to push Doomsday-like sentiments to provoke a sense of immediate urgency to their base.

Senator Ted Cruz, a one time Trump critic turned flagellant to the former President spoke at a Georgia Rally supporting another QAnon candidate, Kelly Loeffler in a special run off on January 2nd.

“You men and women who are gathered here, you are patriots. Just like the patriots who gathered at Bunker Hill. Just like patriots gathered at Valley Forge. Just like the patriots who forged this Nation, the men and women gathered here are fighting for the United States of America. I love…