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In their effort to #whatabout yesterday's Capitol invaders, people on the MAGA-sympathetic right are making two glaring mistakes about last summer post-Floyd movement.
The first involves failing to make a distinction between the protests and gatherings that were largely safe and legal, and the rioting and looting that were decidedly not.
Conflating everything into some sort of rhetorically effective but substantively empty descriptor like "summer riots" or "BLM riots" just marks you off as a partisan hack. The majority of post-Floyd assembly was fine.
Second, the attempt at drawing an equivalence between yesterday and last summer requires a *false* equivalence between the two events which gave rise to their respective outcries. I'm talking about the events that *motivated* these movements.
Here's an important difference between yesterday's Trump mob and the post-Floyd protests: assembling in order to protest the police killing of an innocent black man is a worthy aim, whereas assembling in order to assuage Trump's electoral butt hurt is . . . the opposite of one.
