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You may want to revise that opinion. The US Capital building as been attacked on a number of occasions, with the most recent prior to Jan 6, being in 1983 by a leftist group protesting military action in Lebanon and Grenada.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/07/us-capitol-violent-political-attacks/

I'm not condoning the 1983 attack.  I don't remember it--maybe because I was in Grenada at the time--but I hope that the capital cops gave better than they got.

But that leftist group was not trying to stop the approval of the electoral college votes so as to overturn the result of a presidential election.
We've had riots in Washington before.  We've had riots around the Capitol before.  But, until 6 January 2021, we had never had an attempt to violently reverse a presidential election.

There was no attempt to reverse a vote. They were there to protest the results and urge their elected officials to vote against confirming the vote which would have then pushed the decision to the House, as per the Constitution.

The narrative that they were trying to overthrow the government with an unarmed group of people, most of which were simply walking through and taking pictures, is absurd.  I'm not saying that there were a few that were out of line, breaking windows and pushing and attempting to fight with the Capital police. But a majority of them were not behaving this way.

Had the crowd been somehow able to alter the election, it would have been extra legal, and a bad thing in my view.  If they merely meant to protest, the obviously did it in a bad way, in my view.  Some were violent and caused mayhem and injuries.