> If it was a real insurrection What's a "real" insurrection? An insurrection is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Jan 6 fits the bill p

> If it was a real insurrection What's a "real" insurrection? An insurrection is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Jan 6 fits the bill perfectly. > it would have been significantly better armed, more violent and more effective. Your goalpost-moving is ridiculous. You've made up your own definition for words which are already clearly defined. > A far more logical explanation is that an unexpectedly large group of demonstrators showed up and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them. After that they just took advantage with no thought -- Hey lets proudly get on camera committing a crime. What could go wrong. Were we watching the same event? I'm honestly confused how you could come out of the Jan 6 events with that take. "Far more logical" explanation that totally denies the reality of the raw video footage from that day. > unexpectedly large group Can you cite that it was unexpectedly large? I thought it was smaller than they expected? > and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them Why was there a tiny police force at the capitol? The reason is that the insurrectionists had insiders working with them that specifically held back the National Guard for hours while the insurrectionists took over the Capitol. You are citing examples of why this wasn't a "real" insurrection but your examples are direct results of the "successes" in the planning an execution of their failed insurrection. > After that they just took advantage with no thought What do you mean, "no thought"? These people clearly had this planned out. There were secret underground-tunnel tours of the Capitol given to the insurrectionists the day before, by Republican members of congress. There was significant forethought and planning that went into the event. > Hey lets proudly get on camera committing a crime They didn't think they were committing a crime. They have been very vocal about this. They consider the crime to be our democracy and they were there to stop it. Presumably at the end, they expected to win, and therefore not be criminals, because they'd be in charge of the government and rewarded. The insurrection failed (so far) but that doesn't mean it was fake.