January 6 Capitol riot participants believed they were saving democracy, not undermining it, and their sincere conviction in this does not change the fact that their actions were undermining the system; everyone throughout US history who has acted to secede or overturn the union has claimed to be upholding its greatest principles.
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Carlos LozadaEvidence Quote
“people whose actions one can look at and think are undermining the system almost always couch those actions in a perhaps sincere belief that they are in fact rescuing it”
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