I am posting this because I am quite honestly sick and tired of hearing about how Trump supporters tried to "take our democracy away" with allegations that they actually tried to overthrow the government of the US. For those who don't know, radical left wing groups are objectively responsible for much, much more violent events occurring within the same building. In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists shot 5 US congressmen in the halls of the Capitol, attempting to kill them (obviously) but failing to do so. Then, in 1983, the armed wing of the May 19th Communist Organization set off a bomb inside of the senate offices, which once again was a serious attack on the institutions of our government (They also had an abortive plan to assassinate Kissinger) and had the very real potential to kill/maim people in the same building (It was placed directly outside of a Democratic senators office, targeting him for his support of the invasion of Grenada).

If you think that Jan 6 was an insurrection and an attack on our nations democracy, you must think the exact same thing about these other two events which I mentioned, and thus that the far left has in fact has posed an equivalent risk to our country, or your opinion about Jan 6 is worthless. This is my position. You can change my view by convincing me that these events are not equivalent.