Subject: Re: Jan 6 picnicker gets 5 years
The useful idiots in themselves were not a real threat to democracy. - Umm

OK, we can agree on that

That still doesn't mean that since they were not DIRECTLY a threat to democracy, that democracy itself wasn't threatened by other actors. - more Umm

Ahh, you have to introduce a new variable, direct or indirect, to maintain the self-delusion that our democracy was about to be lost. Ok by me, just don't expect everyone to see it that way.