Sympathy for the Suckers

I have no sympathy for the thugs who broke into the capitol yesterday. As with  all the other rioters and looters of the last year, they should get what is coming to them. However I do have some  for the earnest,  peaceful protesters who came to Washington yesterday on a fool’s errand and could not see they have been played as marks by a vicious con artist. A usually ignored part  of Trump’s  generally  egregious behavior since November 3^rd has been his treatment of  the people who not only voted for him but believed in him as a trustworthy person. His lies and scare stories have left many of them angry, despondent, deluded, nervously mistrustful, belligerent, and even worried about the survival of the country and their way of life.  

They should have paid attention and seen what was going on. Trump has made what he is  pretty obvious, but one can still feel sorry for them. They gave their faith to a scoundrel  who had made them believe he took them seriously and cared about their values, and they are paying for it.