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If Trump Is Not an Insurrectionist, What Is He? (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Trump sought and actively tried to subvert constitutional government and overturn the results of the presidential election. And what he could not do through the arcane rules and procedures of the Electoral College, he tried to do through the threat of brute force, carried out by an actual mob.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that conditional statement

You're gonna want to read through to the punctuation marks on the ends of sentences, they're pretty important sometimes, like if you're trying to tell whether an author is making a statement ("." and "!", typically) or asking a question ("?").

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

It’s still an obnoxiously clickbaity title