What am I discounting? If I got any facts wrong, let me know. Otherwise it's just that your interpretation is different. I know some americans have a very "you are either with us or with the terrorist" outlook to... everything but I can assure you that I'm not making any particular effort. Your hyperbole is duly noted though.
I agree that the damage isn't in the people that died (because they didn't) and that the damage is more towards the institution. The problem is that the narrative for a year has been to make martyrs out of the 4 deaths (not the fifth, for obvious reasons). Sure, now that it's untenable to do that I hear that the "deaths didn't even matter!" but that just makes the entire thing even more blatant.
For all I care, trump could've been arrested for what he did. Again that's not my point, my argument was mostly that the borderline hysterical bend to every single detail of that day
is a bit embarrassing. You can say that the president caused an illegal riot to influence or interfere with the electoral process and should be arrested, without going into "it's an insurrection and a coup attempt by armed militias trying to kill congress members and also etc etc."
It reminds me of when the conservatives were trying to do everything to make the black lives matter protests sound like an insanely violent anarchist civil war.
I agree that the damage isn't in the people that died (because they didn't) and that the damage is more towards the institution. The problem is that the narrative for a year has been to make martyrs out of the 4 deaths (not the fifth, for obvious reasons). Sure, now that it's untenable to do that I hear that the "deaths didn't even matter!" but that just makes the entire thing even more blatant.
For all I care, trump could've been arrested for what he did. Again that's not my point, my argument was mostly that the borderline hysterical bend to every single detail of that day is a bit embarrassing. You can say that the president caused an illegal riot to influence or interfere with the electoral process and should be arrested, without going into "it's an insurrection and a coup attempt by armed militias trying to kill congress members and also etc etc."
It reminds me of when the conservatives were trying to do everything to make the black lives matter protests sound like an insanely violent anarchist civil war.