The plan is to downplay the level of violence and terror they unleashed, and treat those who refuse to be gaslit as dramatists and hysterics, until even Republicans who described the insurrection *as such* in real time retcon it as a rowdy ho-down nobody had any reason to fear. https://t.co/dT9O2jYMNz

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 4, 2021