What if one party had just somehow managed to fix all the voting machines, to give themselves a victory that was not an actual reflection of what the voters had done? What if they had truly stolen the election? Then I think that people would have some right slash obligation to protest maybe even violently against that. The origin of the badness isn't the attack, it's the fact that they promulgated and believed that lie about the election being stolen,. That was the problem. Things follow from that that are terrible, but that was the beginning of it.
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