Day 22: Nothing Is More Sacred

While resting his case for the conviction of former president Trump, Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) delivered one of the most sobering remarks to come of the insurrection. “Nothing in this country is more sacred — nothing — than our right to vote, our voice,” he said.

It’s particularly palpable when juxtaposed to the never-before-seen footage of mobsters desecrating the United States Capitol Building, the universally recognized symbol of American democracy — the oldest surviving democracy on earth.

They came to defend the 74 million votes for Trump that were cast, and at the insistence that the 81 million votes for Biden-Harris were somehow fraudulent.

Neguse’s voice resonated at the scene of the crime, situated at the center of 712,000 people who are completely disenfranchised in that building whose walls were smeared with feces on that fateful day, leaving behind the stench of hypocrisy for custodial workers who have no vote in that building.

And it cut through the remnants of bear spray and the sweat of loyal men like Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman who saved the day — at least twice that day — and who has no vote whatsoever among the Congresspeople he saved.

“Nothing in this country is more sacred — nothing — than our right to vote, our voice.”