It Was Sedition
The Oath Keepers imagine themselves to be true patriots, but, as a jury of their peers found this week, their deeds were a crime against the United States.
It’s fitting that Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is gaslighting. Since a violent mob assaulted the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, apologists have tried to argue that the thing everyone saw with their own eyes, captured in videos and photographs, simply wasn’t what it appeared to be.
But, of course, the images show rioters using flagpoles, baseball bats, and other things as weapons. Except that now men who did bring guns have been convicted, and the House that many people were carrying firearms. Even more enduring a rebuttal has been this:
