Right-Wing Calls to Celebrate Jan. 6 Anniversary Draw a Muted Response
The New York Times
Online chatter about holding rallies has grown, but sizable real-world gatherings on Thursday are unlikely to materialize.
Last month, a onetime campaign aide to former President Donald J. Trump posted on Facebook, Twitter, Gab and other social media sites. For the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, he wrote, candlelight vigils would be held in 20 cities on Thursday to honor those who stormed the building.
“January 6th was America’s Tiananmen Square,” Matt Braynard, the former Trump campaign aide and founder of Look Ahead America, a right-wing organization, said in a post on Gab. “Join us in marking this lie with #J6vigils from coast to coast.”
The responses were sparse. Seventy-eight people liked the message, and 21 people shared it.
