Today was quintessential American if you look at how this country started.
No ! America started because people reacting to a British monarchy who acted unreasonably on a number of fronts including human rights, taxes and religion et al
This insurrection is the result of a manipulative president, knowing he would likely lose the election, proclaimed if he did lose it would be because of fraudulent election, and after losing proclaimed fraud per script
All his enablers, afraid to stand up to him for a myriad of reasons, therefore permitted him to attempt to steamroll 6 or so state governments through personal intimidation tactics and 60 court actions
Because this cult leader proclaimed fraud these cult members having felt disenfranchised by former administrations and other perceived societal ills over a period of years embraced his false claims of fraud as factual and emotionally ratcheted themselves up concurrently with him egging them on to attack Congress
And following the same personality flaws those cult members turn with vicious impunity on anyone close to POTUS who now backs away from him lest they be compared to him forever
All actions have consequences. These perpetrators will have cell time to realize they got duped out of $250,000,000, their future emotional well being and time with their families
A religious guy from Iowa name unknown regrets getting caught up in the moment. Except my friend you engaged in planning for the actions to come, made travel arrangements, traveled from Iowa to DC, and participated within DC in some form of structured activities. Caught up in the moment my a$$. I don’t doubt you might regret your actions. What you all likely didn’t give thought to was the reality of the consequences of your action
No. This is not really akin to the formation of the U. S. Of America. This is the result of a lot of conspiratorial minded people enabling and then following a petulant child sociopath. Congratulations