Hate politics. It’s always been around, but Trump was able to harness it, weaponize it, normalize it and take it to the next level.
I haven’t followed this case much and don’t know the exact behavior that precipitated the expulsion of two and not of the third. That doesn’t really matter too much to me.
A couple of things, however, are apparent.
To try to compare this protest to that of the January 6 insurrection is profound partisan bullshittery. There was an interruption of the process, for sure. We see that daily, from school board meetings to city council meetings, on and on. Nothing new there. Certainly, not the violent attempt to overthrow a presidential election.
Civil disobedience is a fine thing, IF one is clear about the consequences of such and willing to accept those consequences. Otherwise, one is nothing more than an attention getting whiner.
Now, if these legislators were clear on the rules of conduct for their chamber and willingly violated them for that cause, so be it. I suspect there was more at play here, since it was strictly along party lines. More about “get even” hate politics. You know. The thing that Trump normalized.
