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1/6 Was Bad, 9/11 Was Bad, But These Events Should Not Be Compared
(hearing about a guy who died) wow thats like 0.0003 9/11s — @dril, 9/10/2020
Over the past couple of months, Spencer Ackerman has been doing a media tour to promote his new book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Although I’m about to mock the very premise of his work, I want to make it known that I do not find it unreasonable that two events, even ones that appear unrelated, have unseen connections. For example, the rise in conspiracy theories after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Federal Government failing Americans during Vietnam, the corrupt Nixon Administration, the failed Carter administration, and the overall increase in distrust in government on everything from UFOs to Atlantis certainly had a role to play in Ronald Reagan’s anti-government philosophy being so appealing to the American public. Instead, my issue with Ackerman is not that he’s drawing a comparison between 9/11 and Donald Trump’s Presidency, but that he’s using fake history to make that point.
In a 9/9/2021 guest essay for The New York Times specifically focusing on the events of 1/6/2021, Ackerman wrote:
