Don’t call it an ‘insurrection’: GOP moves to excise a word it once used for Jan. 6

Back in February, I wrote I piece headlined, in part, “the emerging hoax-ification of the Capitol riot.” I argued that we were again seeing what we saw with Charlottesville: small but influential elements of the conservative movement, over time, capitalizing on fading memories to recast the official narrative. That narrative: a more politically convenient one in which President Donald Trump was actually, somehow, maybe right when he blamed “both sides” for what happened that day — despite all the evidence to the contrary.