>>1359755>And I never could get an answer to this question anytime I ask it: how could Jan 6th be a threat to our democracy?You're being myopic. A riot on its own probably isn't a threat. A riot paired with a sitting president who tried to steal an election through fraudulent electors and a vice president who breaks the ECA to send the vote to the congress. That's a real threat. You're making the mistake of viewing the riot on January 6th as some isolated event and ignoring the weeks and months of criminal and anti-democratic behavior enacted by the president leading up to it.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_shootingI don't think you know what the term breach means
>But they did disrupt a political function. Which anytime Jan 6th gets argued is the reason I'm told why Jan 6th was so horrible. January 6th was horrible because it was orchestrated and cheered by a sitting president, not because it delayed certification for a few hours.
>Wanna compare that to all the other democrats in 2020 that ordered police to hold back, denied using the national guard, and kept Trump from interfering?If you know anything about riot and crowd control its common practice sometimes not to send police in full bore to stampede a crowd. Sometimes it just makes things worth. Its also common practice for states issues to be left to the states. There are no legitimate reasons for the president of the U.S. to sit and do nothing for 3 hours while his protestors riot.
>but I'm really fucking tired of the argument that Trump "did nothing for 3 hours"Well, he did. An hour into the riot after Babbit had already been shot and killed and Pence was hiding in an underground bunker, instead of telling everyone to stop and go home he tweeted "Mike Pence failed to do the right thing". It is 100% an indicator of guilt.
>but anytime I bring up dems directly supporting rioters that never counts.There were no dems who supported rioters. Its just a lie.
