This is true. It’s also true that the mob sacked an institution whose leaders have insisted on pretending, in the face of all indications to the contrary, that everything is normal.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1347068149666082818
If you know days in advance, as I and everyone with functioning senses did, that the president was trying to incite a violent mob in the nation’s capital to stop the certification of his defeat, it should trigger both a security AND a political response.
When the latter doesn’t materialize, when the people under threat essentially say “what’s we’re witnessing is actually not happening, it’s an illusion” why wouldn’t that bleed down into the operations of the people charged with protecting them. Just another protest.
Again, this was all foreseeable and foreseen. Many people just didn’t want to acknowledge. Unfortunately some of them control the legislature.
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1346584372976218116
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