- Moderator
- #21
IMO, the majority were there for the rally. They stopped short of attacking the Capital, in fact, several when interviewed talked about being unnerved by the behavior of some of the people and choosing to go home. Let's call those the peaceful protestors. The invaded the Capital were a combination of those who came prepared for that (they brought weapons or items easily converted to weapons) and those idiots who got swept up in the emotion.Serious how? Other than the obvious there was a protest that turned into a riot and people broke into the capitol building portion. Also how is Donald Trump responsible for what those 1000 idiots decided to do? There were over 50k people at the speech before this happened. Why did such a small percentage pick up on all the coded "invaded the capitol" messaging?
Trump knows how to work crowds into a mob, this is mob psychology 101. You don't think breaking into the Capitol, trashing it, attacking police, looking for congress people to attack and attempting to stop the certification of an election is serious?