Democrats losing all credibility in denial of overwhelming evidence..

[Dill]

I agree with Pally and Dino here, as they discern essential differences in law and fact, and with Hollo: It matters who is "actually worse."

And it matters by what values/standards we determine "worse." Those values are the real stake now. They seem to be evaporating amidst accusations of TDS.

Do more broken windows in Portland make those riots worse than an insurrection directed from the highest office in the land to steal an election? As Dino notes, there is a difference between protesting a police murder and surging into the Capitol to "stop congress from certifying election results." As Hollo said in another post, one "has totally different ramifications for the very fabric of the country and democracy."  To which I'd add, it has international ramifications as well, among both allies and enemies who can see the stakes better than many Americans apparently can.

BLM or the "modern left" or whomever is supposedly the other term of such false equivalences to the Capitol insurrection were not in communication with and being directed by a president and his staff. 

Has anyone noticed that Biden has not vowed to go after the police/prosecutors who arrested BLM protestors?? So long as Biden is not successfully campaigning to music sung by imprisoned protestors or promising to "free the hostages" if re-elected and the like, then counting heads to force Democrats to acknowledge their "role" in riots they didn't direct or approve seems deflection from the real stakes of a Trump re-election. 

A number of Congressional Republicans condemned Trump's role in the Capitol riots, then did a 180 when they saw the base was not with them. Now they are working actively to get him back into power. Their legislative counterparts in swing states are preparing to shift control of electoral votes from their voters to the legislature if the vote does go as they wish, and they now have a playbook for paralyzing elections with claims of fraud and a party apparatus to back it. Trump, though out of office, can still block legislation to prevent the work of government. The Capitol riots were no "one off"; they were the beginning of an organized push for autocracy.

So on Trump's side of the aisle, we've hit just about every index of party autocratization --including what Hollo, with cool understatement, calls "the coup aspect." The false equivalence should just end, full stop, right there.

But it does not end there because . . . BOTH sides suck?  ALL riots should be condemned??  TDS??? 

Thus dissolves a clear choice between normalcy and constitutional crisis, chaos.