The culture and rhetoric that drives young boys to shoot up a school is barely removed form why the last two shooters shot at Trump. Or why the morons shot inside a Walmart or in Buffalo or in a church.
The underlying problem is the same imo and yes the media plays a role. (And no it’s not just one type of culture)
semantics. The Congress is not the government. It’s one part of it. And they were not revolting against the congress, they were attempting to stop or delay them from conducting an official act. No-one was trying to overthrow the Congress. No-one was taking part in an act of war against the Congress. No one was declaring autonomy. No one was trying to get rid of the Congress. No one was rebelling against the government.
There was no insurrection. There was a riot, a rather minor riot that petered out of its own accord when the people just went home. The vast majority of the people there were guilty of trespassing at most. Trespassing is not an act of insurrection, its an act of protest.
Relying on the actual definition of words is not semantics. Insurrection is violent protest against the authority of government, not the government itself. What Congress was doing that day that the protesters objected to was an act that was within their authority, that in fact was their duty as outlined in the Constitution. Yes, some of the participants did no more than trespass, but there were many who engaged in insurrection as well.
You are right. That would have been more of a coup attempt, which it was not.
Trump attempted to use fake electors and tried to get his VP to over turn the will of the people. He had members of his campaign attempt to steal vote information in Georgia…
The only person in this election who attempted to commit fraud is Trump.
If that doesn’t scream “threat to democracy” then what does? Calling someone who actually threatened democracy… a threat to it… is not a call to assassinate him… it’s a fact of the matter