National mood: horror, shame, grief, indignation.

Mood of highly online right-wing: self-pity.
Reading so many accounts, reading so many pro-Trump web sites, you'd think the worst thing that has happened in the past 48 hours is that some online personalities have lost their freedom to plot the kidnapping of the vice president on social media.
The Trump plan for January 6 was to kidnap and coerce leaders of HIS OWN party, and most especially HIS OWN vice president. The fantasy was that if somebody put a gun to Mike Pence's head, that gun could save the Trump presidency. And Trump himself believed this, he said so.
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