The lack of self awareness as they justified using force to secure “their” stolen democracy over the majority of voters wishes.
The thing about the USA is that they have the 2nd amendment stuff drummed into them from all sides, their whole lives. Of course the people should march on the government with guns if the government has gone rogue. A good citizen owes it to the founding fathers, to democracy itself.
From our anti-gun culture over here it would seem unthinkable to march on the Houses of Parliament with guns, but I reckon most of the mob truly believed they were in the right. And frankly, who can blame them? They have been fed a constant diet of outright lies about stolen elections, briefcases, paedophiles and pizzas by people with enormous marketing power. Maybe some others knew it was unjust, but they wanted to ‘own some libs’ (because that is also a praise-worthy activity now).
What happened is that mostly dumb people were weaponised for the interests of the GOP. It’s terrifying to see it happen so ferociously, but it’s not really different from the xenophobia and populism we have over here.
If it were up to me, I’d see that Trump, Cruz, Hawley, Boebert et al are held accountable to an attempted coup, as well as all their staffers and people who acted maliciously in enabling and propagating the big con. And actually, I’d go easy on the protesters who were mostly doing what they thought was right. But I suspect a handful of people will go to prison for a long time, and the architects will be just fine.
