many years ago i bought the story the dumocorps sell, in part because it was the nixon/reagan years when the rethuglicans were fully out of control, as are their counterparts these days. pcr presents a rational rendition of the 'insurrection' here for your consideration;

Does America Have a Future?
Paul Craig Roberts

Glenn Greenwald Offers his Perspective on the Democrats’ “Trump Insurrection” Histrionics. Greenwald is on the money, but the situation for American is even more serious than he thinks.

Here is Greenwald’s explanation of the counterfactual reality created for us by Democrats:

“The orgy of psychodrama today [Jan 6, 2022] was so much worse and more pathetic than I expected — and I expected it to be extremely bad and pathetic. ‘House Democrats [waited] their turn on the House floor to talk to Dick Cheney as a beacon for American democracy,’ reported CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere. Nancy Pelosi gravely introduced Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton to sermonize and sing about the importance of American democracy. The Huffington Post’s senior politics reporter Igor Bobic unironically expressed gratitude for ‘the four legged emotional support professionals roaming the Capitol this week, helping officers, staffers, and reporters alike.’ Yesterday, CNN’s Kaise Hunt announced: ‘Tomorrow is going to be a tough one for those of us who were there or had loved ones in the building. Thinking of all of you and finding strength knowing I’m not alone in this.’ Unsurprisingly but still repellently: Kamala Harris today compared 1/6 to 9/11.”

“That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted insurrection or ‘coup’ was laughable from the start, and has become even more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump supporters [actually only a few hundred and probably more federal agents than Trump supporters], largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had [submitted to being] locked in their homes during a pandemic [real tough guys]— three of whom were so physically infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything approaching a serious threat to ‘overthrow’ the federal government of the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel someone suggesting it with a straight face.”

An example of what Greenwald is writing about is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a US Congress person representing Florida’s 23rd congressional district, obviously a very sick part of Florida. Here is what she had to say to me on January 6, 2022:..........read more.......