A crowd rallies to call for “Stop the Steal” in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2021.
A subdued atmosphere pervades the empty streets of Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7. For Trump supporters, the shock of the previous day’s clashes and the overnight certification of electoral votes by Congress still lingered.
Many were packing up and preparing to go home. Meanwhile, a fence was erected around the Capitol and the National Guard troops stationed there could be seen from afar.
Tony Good, who retired from the Marines, came from Florida to attend the rally and walked to theEllipse to hear President Trump speak yesterday morning (Jan. 6). He said Trump did not incite violence in his speech.
“No, absolutely not. There’s a difference between inciting riots and standing on convictions,” Goode said, “He didn’t tell anybody to riot, he just told people that it’s our right to protest, it’s a right that America has given us.”
After the speech, Goode and his group got separated and they went back to the hotel to rejoin. As a result, he did not go to the Capitol, but he said he wished he had.
“I call yesterday, the first day of a 10-year war,” he said, “and it’s going to take 10 years to turn things around. It’s going to take that long.”
Goode said, “The point of this war is …… to get America back to where it should be, to restore fair and free elections, to restore the integrity of elections.”
“This can’t be done overnight because the people in power don’t want it to be so. They want to rule the people, they want to be the ruling class.”
Tony Good in Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2021.
Good said he was not surprised by what happened yesterday, but is a little sad today “because things are going to change.”
“We have to regroup, and we’re fighting an evil system. When you have to fight all the mainstream media and fight all the big money, things are not going to be that easy.” He said.
“Stand up for this country.”
Elizabeth Rowell flew in alone from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to attend the protest. She found Trump’s speech “passionate,” but not to the point of inciting a riot.
I never felt unsafe,” she said. I met a lot of great patriots on the way. The whole time, we were chanting U-S-A and singing the national anthem.”
However, Rowell said she felt “a little frustrated today because I didn’t like the way we were portrayed.”
“I think the media made the situation look like … the people who went into (the Capitol) made the rest of us outside look like a bunch of hooligans,” she said. She said.
“But we didn’t do anything. We were there just to be patriotic and to support our president.”
Elizabeth Rowell said, “I came here to stand up for this country. I think it’s been stolen from us. I will not accept Biden as president, and I do feel that the world, it’s going to be a bad place because of him.”
She said she will continue to support Trump.
Elizabeth Rowell, left, and Martha Todd in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, 2021.
“A dream completely disillusioned.”
Martha Todd, a retiree from Lynchburg, Virginia, said she was feeling good about the Jan. 6 protest rally until after she left and heard about the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt or that protesters had stormed the building.
Martha Todd: “I feel terrible about the way things are going, and I feel really bad about the way the media is portraying everything, too.”
She said, “Of course, they made it sound terrible…that we were thugs, that we were mobs, that we were violent. That’s not true.”
“My dreams are completely disillusioned. But I don’t support Biden. His family is a crime family. I just think we’re finished,” she said, “I don’t feel like I’ve lost hope, there’s always hope.”
“And yet, there are so many people out there who are so against Trump. They lie, they cheat, they steal. When they cheat, how can you fight that? They’re all woefully out of touch.”
“On the edge of socialism”
Carol Logreco, a self-described conservative, joined the campaign from New Orleans at the Oval and the Capitol. She said she wanted to be there to support freedom and free and fair elections.
“(We) feel that we’re losing a lot of rights and we’re on the verge of socialism or Marxism,” she said, “and you can see that our children, our students and our communities, are being constantly indoctrinated with ideas.”
“I really feel that this is the last chance to make a real stand before we never have another chance to do that.”
She said yesterday generally felt a lot like a carnival, but she saw some agitators in the crowd who, she believes, infiltrated the protest crowd.
Carol Loglico said, “I feel disappointed and disheartened. I think it’s a war. And I think that yesterday was a battle within the war. I don’t mean like a physical battle within the war, but more like a philosophical battle of ideas, where do we stand as Americans? Where are our rights and our freedoms?” Carol Logliaco said.
“People can go to Portland and Seattle and burn down buildings and take over police stations and everything else, and it’s called the Summer of Love.”
The Summer of Love, which took place in the summer of 1967 when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, became known as the “Hippie Revolution.
Going forward, she says, “we have to regroup and figure out what’s the best way to be heard.”
Carol Logreco in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, 2021.
“It’s a bad situation.”
Mike Morejon, a self-employed Florida man, says he feels “broken” today.
“Because of my parents’ lives, I understand the gravity of it all, and it’s a bad situation,” he said. He said.
Morejón said his parents lived in Cuba when Fidel Castro was in power and led a difficult life until they fled the country in the early 1970s.
“They put (my mother) to work in agriculture and left Cuba to work hard for four years. She was a 17-year-old woman at the time, but had to be away from her family for 14 hours a day cutting sugar cane and picking fruits and vegetables.” He said, “They sometimes had to feed on maggots and there were sometimes rats in the water supply.”
Morehun said he fears a similar future for the United States under the control of the globalist elite and the Chinese Communist regime. Trump is willing to rise up against the Communist regime, he said, but for decades before that, under previous U.S. presidents, the Communist regime passed unhindered.
“The globalists, the elitists, and China, they want to tax us, they will raise our taxes, they want to vaccinate us, they want to put us under government control. That’s what I see,” he said.
Morejon said he is here to support the Constitution. Without the Constitution, we have no rights,” he said. I’m here for every Democrat. I’m here for every ordinary person.”
Mike Morejon (D-Wash.) in Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2021.
“The fight is not over.”
Kim Kramer, who flew in from New Orleans for the rally, said it was a “very upbeat, very inspiring” day of “people wanting to support each other, support our country, support our president.
The day after the rally, she said she had mixed feelings.
“I knew it was a demonstration of the people to show the members of Congress how much we support our president. Other than that, there is nothing else I want.” She said.
Kim Kramer (D-N.Y.) in Washington on Jan. 7, 2021.
“The fight is not over. I’m not excited about it, and I’m not frustrated about anything.” Kim Kramer believes that everything is in God’s hands.
“I have a strong faith in God, and I also believe that our prayers are under God’s watch … I believe that there must be really good people who have faith.”
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