January 6th is a hard story to sell.

[kentuck]

...if you are a Republican running for public office.

You must persuade your constituency that the violent people that climbed the walls and over-whelmed the police forces protecting the Capitol, were not involved in an insurrection. It was just a march that got out of control.

Also, you must persuade them that the Congressmen and Senators were not running for their lives on that day. Even if you were caught on camera, you must convince your voters that it didn't happen.

And you must explain to them why your president sat in the White House and watched it for more than three hours, cheering them on, as all the Republican leaders were desperately begging him to call them off.

If you are OK with that, then you are a very sick puppy.

[Zambero]

1. Exactly. Josh Pawley was merely racing to join his fellow patriots

wanting to take their country back from whatever that day. Since he had spurred them on earlier with the clenched fist, the good senator was intent on demonstrating his solidarity, knowing with full confidence that it was Mike Pence and not him that those overzealous tourists wished to bump off. Certainly, Josh and others like him will be able to explain and clarify all of this to loyal Qonstituents out on the campaign trail.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. At the time it was "tourism" or "antifa" or "fake news".

Now at least they admit it. Not too many people watch that and call it "a march that got out of control".

Baby steps but ... progress.

[Mr. Ected]

3. 2 1/2 years later, they don't have to "sell" the idea of J6 anymore

The cult has accepted the fact that this was legitimate political discourse and that they have been singled out unfairly because of their political affiliations. Always the victim, always the martyrs. That 'intellectual' calculus happened immediately and once accepted in their complicated little brains, no one speaking truth or sense has been or will ever be able to persuade them otherwise.