The leader was Trump. The goal was convincing voters the 2020 election was stolen. The plan was to overturn it and if that proved impossible, to pave the way for overturning the next election. The riot may have failed in the SR but I fail to see that as "reassuring" as Neil does.
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1479111674946719745
40% plus of the US electorate now say the 2020 election result was not legitimate. I do not find that to be "reassuring". It follows directly from the events of a year ago.
The majority of members of the Republican House now openly reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election result. I do not find that "reassuring". It follows directly from the events of a year ago.
Republican candidates for offices which will oversee the election count in 2024 in multiple swing states openly reject the 2020 election. Trump has endorsed many of them. I do not find that "reassuring". It follows directly from the events of a year ago. edition.cnn.com/2021/12/21/pol…
It requires a certain kind of wilful blindness to claim, as @afneil does, that the past year "vindicates the analysis" that the Jan 6th riots were just a "mob on the rampage" and there is no ongoing threat to US democracy
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1479100071362772995
@afneil Not least it requires ignoring the repeated on the record statements and behaviour of a substantial majority of the Republican political class in the year since.
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