It will. Plenty of people in my own family who've been Trump staunch Trump supporters through thick and thin were appalled by what happened on Wednesday. If the Republicans want to heal the country, they have to reassure these people that there is a path to normalcy and it involves rejecting this kind of extremism.

The worst thing Republicans can do is pretend it's all business as usual and force these people to choose between 'the evil Democrats' (who they won't support, ever) or 'our guy who might try a coup here and there but at least is on our side'.

> it involves rejecting this kind of extremism

It's not "extremism" if, from the point of view of History, you're on the winning side, in that case, it's "heroism".

So your argument is that the violence would've been justified if they had managed to pull the coup. Got it.

History is not written yet.

Unfortunately the non-Trump wings of the Republican party get you people like Mitt Romney. I'd vote Democrat before I backed that guy.

Really just planning to excuse myself from politics for the next few years.