Why a little insurrection is no big deal to Republicans
If their true scam is admitted, the GOP could wander in the wilderness for two generations
It seems inexplicable.
A group of Americans invaded the US Capitol with a plan to kidnap and kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, hoping that would throw the Electoral College vote to the US House, where Republicans would declare Donald Trump the winner.
It was a naked conspiracy to overturn the election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by about 7 million votes, and Trump and his allies were pretty much open that this was their goal.
They wanted to “Stop the Steal,” that is to say, they wanted to stop the Electoral College votes certified by the states from being counted, and wanted to replace them with a vote by the US House that would keep Trump in office for another four years.
But none of that is what’s inexplicable — it can all be easily explained based on current evidence available for anybody with a browser and search engine to find. You can read about it in The New York Times and the Washington Post.
What’s inexplicable is that nobody in the media appears to be using the correct frame to describe what happened a week later, on January 13th, when…
