Paul Waldman--Washington POST today. Is there any way of convincing 70,000,000 or more Republicans that they were tricked into believing the election was stolen?

 That’s part of what makes this threat so challenging. Law enforcement might be able to break up some cells and stop some attacks before they happen. But the insurrectionist movement overlaps with the Republican Party. And they see what happened last Wednesday not as a horror, but as a triumph.

This will be the face of the opposition to the Biden presidency, an incarnation that will make the tea party look civil and restrained. It is enraged and unhinged, consumed with lunatic conspiracy theories and, most important, utterly opposed to the fundamental precepts of a democratic system, especially the one that says sometimes your side wins and sometimes it loses.