How do Trump supporters justify the attack upon our Capitol?

[kentuck]

Obviously, if they did not support the attack upon our Capitol, they would not be supporting Trump.

Conversely, if they still support Trump, they must have supported the attack upon our Capitol?

How do they explain that the Secret Service was trying to protect Mike Pence on January 6th and move him to safety but they made no attempt to move Trump anywhere away from his TV?

How do they defend such traitorous acts and still call themselves patriotic Americans?

Or do they not call themselves "patriotic" Americans anymore?

[bottomofthehill]

1. They blame Antifa.

They are nuts,

[RANDYWILDMAN]

2. They blame Antifa

and then put his head in the sand and watch Fox news.

[EnergizedLib]

3. There is no justification

There’s only mental gymnastics, but lest we be sure that they still call themselves patriots despite having no moral high ground to do so.

Their words carry no merit and there’s nothing patriotic about them, just like January 6 exposed Blue Lives Matter as a dog whistle.

[kentuck]

4. There are a lot of Trump supporters out there.

We can only assume they supported the attack upon our Capitol by the mob of thugs.

[onecaliberal]

5. They're 2 and didn't get their way.

[PJMcK]

6. They really cannot

They are stupid.

[usonian]

7. "Because." nt

[pwb]

8. We know patriots and they ain't them.

Putin loyalist would be the label I give them.

[doc03]

9. They claim the attack on the Capitol was no

different than the BLM protests.

[kentuck]

12. But they didn't really get angry about it until Trump lost the election...

So they were butthurt and grabbed their huge Trump flags and attacked our Capitol. That is what it looks like.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Those who support TDFG still, SUPPORT what took place at the Capitol on Jan.6th.

They ARE NOT patriotic Americans. They are Anti-Democracy, plain and simple.

The same goes for those who fly the Nazi flag. They are telling us who they are and what they stand for as they piss on the US Constitution.

[jalan48]

11. They have been propagandized to hate liberal Democrats.

They believe liberals and most Democrats have no right to rule or in some cases even exist. I first noticed this when I happened on to a radio station playing Rush Limbaugh in the early nineties. His "political" show was not about debating ideas, it was all about vilifying Democrats and the left. For Limbaugh and his followers liberals were illegitimate and needed to be removed.

[dameatball]

13. The few I know just don't talk about it. Since 1/6 I have heard basically:

Gas prices

Inflation

Biden is old

The border

My personal wtf favorite is "Nancy Pelosi refused to let them read the names of the 14 killed in the Afghanistan exit." Now that's digging pretty deep.

Edit: I suppose that once they were able to believe that climate change doesn't exist and also that Trump won the election it isn't much of a stretch to think 1/6 was just a bunch of rambunctious tourists. They can move on from just about anything.

[pandr32]

14. Most of them watch Fox for "news"

They are not being told the truth and so it is easy for them to deny the reality of Jan. 6.

[sanatanadharma]

15. It was the swearing in of President Biden on Jan 20 that justified ...

It was the unconstitutional swearing in of President Biden on Jan 20 that justified the Jan 6th insurrection.

Or so it will be said in bizzaro world.

[meadowlander]

16. When the GOP and right-wing media have conviced you Joe Biden is a radical communist

then I suppose anything you do in response is justified in their minds.

The fault lies with the people who should know better - the Republican politicians using increasingly extreme rhetoric to demonize mainstream moderate Democrats and the lack of accountability for the right-wing propaganda industry.

[Emile]

17. They blame the fake media.

[shrike3]

18. They say the BLM protests were worse, and that's what we should be worried about.

Memes all over the place. Incorrect memes, saying there have been no arrests associated with BLM, etc.

They ignore the fact that the majority of BLM protests were peaceful, and instead make it sound like a dystopian hellscape. And that the rioting was the fault of Democrats.

In fact, rioting, looting, burning are their favorite words and invariably brought up no matter what the subject is. They mention Chicago. Why isn't BLM going to Chicago and taking of all the murders there. This is nothing new. Started long before Jan. 6. Sort of "why talk about the Capitol riot when the BLM protests were so much worse."

Another excuse: "only one person died and she was an innocent woman." The Capitol rioters were "unarmed." Hard to convince people that wasn't true.

[Cosmocat]

20. Right "you lefties burned cities down

Their fantasy Fully justifies it ...

[SunImp]

19. God & the Supreme Court of Heaven says it's okay

[Marcuse]

21. "This was legitimate political discourse, not an attack. These aren't the droids we're looking for."

[kentuck]

22. Of course it was!

As Lincoln said, "Calling a horse's tail a leg does not make it so", after asking the question "If we call the horse's tail a leg, how many legs would the horse have?" The response was "Five".

[Marcuse]

23. There are four legs!

[kentuck]

24. It's legitimate political discourse!

Same argument.