Circe
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You know, that's a very good question and it doesn't get asked enough, or ever. What did she think she was going to do once she broke the door down enough to get in? There were some bad actors in that happy crowd --- I don't like Zip Tie Guy at all, for instance. I've been assuming that Babbit just sort of went crazy, but you are making me think.It matters, because others follow. If she was no harm or threat, WHY did she try to enter? What was her intent?
Because one thing I know about riots is that no one can stop a crowd of people moving purposefully forward. Not without a machine gun emplacement, and often not then. They had this one pinch-point where they could stop them, and the entire Capitol police force had cowarded out ---- but not that praetorian guard that we see with all the guns drawn. This was the point they could stop this incursion, and they did. Just as well, IMO.
At the very least Babbitt's intention was surely to lead the crowd inside. After they got in, what then? Did she want them to kill the congresspersons, or lay waste to the room, or what?