*Among Republican voters, 45% approve of the storming of Capitol, 30% think the perpetrators are 'patriots', 52% think Biden is at least partly to blame for it, and 85% think it would be inappropriate to remove Trump from office after this.*

Internet random error amplification is convincing teenagers of the misinformation that Helen Keller was not deaf and blind.

When I was young, children read about her story, but left out the part where she became a Socialist and joined the IWW.

Some of the wrecker's supporters are having conniptions watching the talk where he condemned them for the violence he urged them to commit.

I can understand that they feel whipsawed by the contradiction between the two things he said. What is interesting is that they cling to his earlier persistent incitement to violence and reject his later denunciation of it.

Long ago I read a book, When Propechy Fails by Festinger et al, which described the events in a small prophetic cult in the US (1950s) whose central prophecy specified a date. Naturally it failed to occur. Some of the participants rejected the cult after that, but others redefined the prophecy so it could happen later, so that they could cling to the cult.

I expect that some of Trump's cultists will redefine the cult to shift it away from him, rather than reject it.

The legislators that supported the inside arm of the wrecker's coup are culpable for the coup, even if they did not commit a crime. They are a threat to the republic.

Those helped the wrecker create the movement that was the base for his coup attempt are morally culpable for that, even if they turned aside before Wednesday's last step. They could see, just as we all could, where the wrecker was aiming that movement. But their culpability is less than that of the first group.

I support the plan for the House to expel the first group.

The districts will hold new elections to replace them.

One of the insurrectionists was killed trying to break down a door in the Capitol.

Normally, cops should not shoot someone just for breaking down a door. They should first try to restrain per, and will normally succeed. But in that situation there may have been no easy option. She was part of an armed mob bent on violence, and allowing her to break down a door might have enabled the mob to attack people.

Some of the insurrectionists had guns, and bombs were found too.