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1) Trump's words did not meet the standard for incitement. In some quarters, pointing this out is taken as excusing the attack on the Capitol. But that inference conveniently bypasses the burden of proof.
2) If that burden could be met, the impeachment managers would not have cut off "peacefully and patriotically" in the same way Biden cut off Trump's 'very fine people' comments before he said, "and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists".
3) In addition to selective editing, many of those who think Trump culpable for the Capitol attack are the same people who, when ANTIFA spent a month trying to burn down a federal courthouse, or when BLM burned cop cars and killed police, were either supportive, silent, or both.
4) This means the left who want Trump impeached and/or convicted are ignorant at best or are not opposed to attacks on the government as such at worse. If the latter, then their issue with those who breached the Capitol can be attributed to a disagreement only on motive/ideology.
5) What of those who called Trump fascist for deploying federal officers (Marshals, ATF, etc) to protect a federal courthouse from a sustained effort to burn it to the ground by those with fashionable ideologies? They are silent as Nat'l Guard troops militarize DC.
6) All this is to say there is an asymmetry in our politics that stems from what is called "repressive tolerance" coined by communist Herbert Marcuse in his 1965 essay of the same name. You can read it here: https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
7) If you want an expert breakdown of this essay, then check out a 4 part podcast series by James Lindsay who breaks it down piece by piece. I will link all 4 podcasts in order in this thread, starting with this one: https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses/status/1360246536962252806
8) Part 2 in 4-part James Lindsay podcast series on Herbert Marcuse's 1965 'Repressive Tolerance' essay: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/red-pill-blue-pill-herbert-marcuse-administered-society/
9) Part 3 in 4-part James Lindsay podcast series on Herbert Marcuse's 1965 'Repressive Tolerance' essay: https://newdiscourses.com/?s=left+good%2C+right+bad
10) Part 4 in 4-part James Lindsay podcast series on Herbert Marcuse's 1965 'Repressive Tolerance' essay: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/02/critical-theorists-as-grand-inquisitors-the-logic-of-repressive-tolerance/
