I'm still worried about Russia interfering in our elections. I can't speak for others.

> And then people quite rightly ask "why was the focus on fabrications rather than real, tangible problems."

Because it almost worked. If one police officer had run a different way, the insurrectionists probably would have found where the congresspeople were. Say a bunch of them are killed—what do you do now? If they came from states that had opposite party governors, and the balance of power in congress changes... what does that mean for democratic legitimacy?

That day came very, very close to being very bad, and there's no reason to think it won't repeat itself in a few years if we don't take the problem seriously.