Top Insurrectionists Are in Hot Water, But How Big a Deal Is That?

The severity of the charges being brought against the top “foot-soldiers” who stormed the Capitol Building is red-hot news here in the U.S.  It’s conceivable that some of these morons could even face the death penalty.

I admit that it would be great to unravel the entire chain of communication, i.e., how the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were contacted and urged to “stop the steal.”  Our Constitution is quite clear that, at 1 PM on January 6th following each presidential election, the President of the Senate (the Vice President) counts the votes and certifies the election in favor of the victor.  What was the exact chronology in terms of who told what to whom, that resulted in hundreds of idiots smashing their way through the place to disrupt the proceedings at precisely this time and date?

Outside of that, to be honest, I’m fairly uninterested.  What they did was wrong, and they will be punished for it.  But their lawyers will argue, and I think effectively, that their clients were mentally unstable going into all this, the victims of heavy disinformation campaigns, which led to their accepting orders from no less than the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military, and the most powerful person on Earth.

“If you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country any longer,” Trump commanded.  As former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says, that’s the equivalent of a Civil War general’s yelling “Charge!”

Either we prosecute Trump for attempting to overthrow the government, or all this is a failure.