Because ignoring that it happened and had enough popular support to actually happen is dangerous. The political right of this country came out to give him the second highest vote count of any American president ever. This was not a one-off event and now that it's over we should just forget it happened, this was an attempted fascist coup from the political right, and trying to downplay that at all is completely unacceptable.
The sheer nerve of these people. Spend months hyping a fake conspiracy of their opponents' electoral fraud culminating in their boss directing a mob into Congress, and then claim it's a time for healing and unity?
okay, I'm tired of you bring up that group
I don't think this can be considered a "seizure of power", not even an attempted one. For one, you have no evidence to suggest that this was the motivation of the mob. Neither did they have any sort of organization or even the weapons necessary to overpower the security forces that were there, nor did they even try. The only shots fired inside the capitol were those by the Capitol Police.
Again, you have no evidence as to what they "tried" to do. In fact, evidence points in the opposite direction. Taking silly pictures at desks and wearing viking costumes, and inviting someone's grandma, are not the actions of people who want to "seize power" or force anyone to do anything.
I'm bringing them up to demonstrate the double standards between what happened here, and what they have been doing.
Doesn't matter what you think, you're wrong and by your own admittance, willfully uneducated on American law.
The man who killed a police officer with a fire extinguisher seemed to be trying. The ones who injured 60 police officers, and hospitalised 12, with metal pipes and chemical agents, seemed to be trying.
Improvised weapons are the hallmark of an angry, unorganized mob, with no clear goals, further evidence that this was not a coup.
The pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC were hardly just plucked up on the spot, were they? There were also arrests for unlicensed firearms.
Ok, and some of us have spent years explaining how overblown your fears were, and this illustrates why perhaps more than anything.
No just means I have no trust you can debate in good faith, nor do I believe you have the education required to understand what a 'coup' or 'fascism' are. Nor do I believe you have the education to understand US law or politics. By your own admittance you are an uneducated man who does not even understand the arguments he makes, why should anyone trust you can understand the arguments of others?
If you think this is "the political right" you completely misunderstand the dynamics here. The Trump crowd isn't right-wing. It isn't ideological. The crossover between Obama voters and Trump voters is large, the people who support Trump strongly and didn't vote before him is even larger. These people have no more loyalty to me than they have loyalty to you.
This is still not evidence of intent of the mob. For example, how would any of the bombs help seize the government? Do you have any evidence that this was coordinated by multiple people, or the act of an individual? Do you have any evidence of a ringleader? Was someone handing out firearms, or were these brought by individuals?
"overpower security forces", to what end? We have no evidence for any answer other than "to get inside".
As a small point of reference, Obama is right-wing too. Less authoritarian (at least personally), but plenty right-wing. But these are the people who wanted to install Trump as a dictator, it's the right-wing.
The attempts to make this out as some terrorist siege are kind of alarming.
Are you suggesting that we start fundamentally changing our system that was utterly unaffected by this event? Do you think the measurement of a government is the ability to avoid hardship rather than survive it?
