The Depraved New White House Website Isn’t Just a Lie: It’s an Invitation
Every authoritarian project depends on the same foundation: control over the story of the past. Not just selective memory or political spin, but the systematic replacement of shared reality with a manufactured one. When that happens, facts become tribal markers, violence becomes debatable, and democracy becomes optional.
The Trump administration’s newly launched White House website on January 6 is a textbook example of this strategy. Presented as an “official history,” it does not merely minimize the attack on the Capitol—it inverts it. Those who breached the building are reframed as victims. Law enforcement officers are recast as aggressors. The certification of a lawful election is portrayed as the true act of subversion.
This kind of revisionism is not aimed at persuading skeptics. Its purpose is normalization. By declaring the insurrection “peaceful” and its aftermath “persecution,” the site quietly lowers the threshold for what counts as acceptable political behavior in the future. If what happened that day was not violence, then violence no longer has a clear meaning.
Governments that pursue this path are not arguing about history; they are preparing the public for what comes next. They are teaching supporters which actions will be forgiven, which institutions will be abandoned, and which truths no longer apply.
What is being rolled out here is not an interpretation of January 6, but a signal about the kind of country its authors intend to build.
