Majority of Republicans blame leftists for Jan 6th riot

[Syne]

People don't come out publically to condemn actions that are self-evidently wrong.

Wow. That's one hell of a load of self-delusional crap. Trying to excuse Democrats, who didn't just fail to condemn but actively condoned the "self-evidently wrong."

This isn't because they approve of them. It's just that the wrongness of the actions is so obvious that no condemnation is necessary.

Just keep telling yourself that, completely contrary to the reality.

Besides that, it's highly unlikely that rightwing rioters use leftist rioters as moral role models for their behavior. The whole attempt to blame them for the Capitol riot is a clear example of that.

There's zero need to take anyone as a moral role model when the left had repeated claimed such actions were just freedom of speech. If the Jan 6th rioters had used BLM as a role model, they would not have stopped at breaking in. They would vandalized everything in sight, set fires, made a more concerted effort to attack police, would have made some actual progress toward finding capitol politicians (which there's no indication they even attempted), etc..

Pull your head out of Don Lemon's ass, MR.

[Leigha]

Something that I do wonder about, though - why are many Republicans against investigating what caused the January 6th riots? I mean, if Republicans (then) thought that the election was going to be a guaranteed victory for Trump, why storm the Capitol at all? Of course, some Democrats will post low effort jokes and memes on social media in response to these questions, so I'm mainly asking Republicans.

[Syne]

Something that I do wonder about, though - why are many Republicans against investigating what caused the January 6th riots? I mean, if Republicans (then) thought that the election was going to be a guaranteed victory for Trump, why storm the Capitol at all? Of course, some Democrats will post low effort jokes and memes on social media in response to these questions, so I'm mainly asking Republicans.

You mean the partisan investigation where Pelosi unilaterally decided which Republicans could and could not sit on the supposedly bipartisan House committee? And only because they objected to the election results, just like many Democrats did when Trump won. That is not a bipartisan investigation. The same would go for any independent commission. Partisans would fight over who's appointed to it, and the end result would be as divided as the country is politically.

The only option that isn't political theater is prosecuting the offenders and letting the courts sort it out, which is already happening.

[Leigha]

Something that I do wonder about, though - why are many Republicans against investigating what caused the January 6th riots? I mean, if Republicans (then) thought that the election was going to be a guaranteed victory for Trump, why storm the Capitol at all? Of course, some Democrats will post low effort jokes and memes on social media in response to these questions, so I'm mainly asking Republicans.

You mean the partisan investigation where Pelosi unilaterally decided which Republicans could and could not sit on the supposedly bipartisan House committee? And only because they objected to the election results, just like many Democrats did when Trump won. That is not a bipartisan investigation. The same would go for any independent commission. Partisans would fight over who's appointed to it, and the end result would be as divided as the country is politically.

The only option that isn't political theater is prosecuting the offenders and letting the courts sort it out, which is already happening.

Well, it seems like Democrats believe that Republicans ''refused'' to take part in a bipartisan investigation though, despite being offered an olive branch. Of course, the reasons they claim for the refusal are that Republicans are to blame (for the Capitol riot). What does that even mean?

[Syne]

You mean the partisan investigation where Pelosi unilaterally decided which Republicans could and could not sit on the supposedly bipartisan House committee? And only because they objected to the election results, just like many Democrats did when Trump won. That is not a bipartisan investigation. The same would go for any independent commission. Partisans would fight over who's appointed to it, and the end result would be as divided as the country is politically.

The only option that isn't political theater is prosecuting the offenders and letting the courts sort it out, which is already happening.

Well, it seems like Democrats believe that Republicans ''refused'' to take part in a bipartisan investigation though, despite being offered an olive branch.  Of course, the reasons they claim for the refusal are that Republicans are to blame (for the Capitol riot). What does that even mean?

Democrats are outright lying (relying on their grossly uninformed voters to carry their water). They only wanted to allow Republicans they thought might kind of agree with them to participate. That's called stacking the deck, not an olive branch. As always, if Republican politicians or general voters are to blame for a minuscule number of people's actions then Bernie Sanders and his supporters are responsible for the Congressional baseball game shooting, BLM riots, etc..