On January 6, 2021, committed conspiracy theorist Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by Police Officer Michael Byrd, as she tried to force her way through the glass doors that separated a mob of violent seditionists from dozens of members of congress and their staffs hunkering down amidst the chaos of a full blown insurrection against the United States government.
In the months since then, the increasingly dominant proto-fascist wing of the post-Donald Trump Republican Party has frantically tried to reframe Babbitt as a patriotic martyr who was unjustly killed for a righteous cause, rather than a reality-adverse insurrectionist whose death resulted from her wholehearted belief in an unhinged political fantasy of “stolen elections” and “crimes of the century” promulgated by Trump and his enablers.
