Do you ever read a conversation before you post? All of that has been addressed and more.
I think there's an important distinction to be made here: they didn't attack the capitol because their candidate lost an election.
Imagine for a moment that you're a MAGA Republican, securely nestled in the bosom of Fox "News" and such, and you hear that the election was stolen, and the POTUS (who is still currently in office) is asking you to stop the fraudulently elected candidate from being falsely certified as the election winner. As a patriotic American, you would want to heed the call to save American democracy from destruction.
The scary thing isn't that Trump supporters tried to stop the certification of a legitimate election. The scary thing is that they were so easily fooled into believing it was illegitimate. The Republican rhetoric about Democrats being out to destroy the country and "our way of life" has gotten so pervasive, and the reality distortion field that shuts out any evidence to the contrary has gotten so strong, that all these people were fooled into thinking that they were saving American democracy, when in fact they came dangerously close to destroying a fundamental pillar of it (the peaceful transfer of power). If so many people can so easily and so completely be fooled into believing that, what else can they be fooled into believing in the future? These are dark times for American democracy.
The guy got elected on the foundation that "the government is corrupt". Isn't it just another act of an established plot?
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