I remember I was still active on the donald or patriots or whatever it was called then. I tried to tell people, you want to go to this, fine. You need a plan of ingress that involves covering tracks. No cellphones, period. No social media posts. Don’t tell anyone you were ever there. Multiple exit strategies. Even then many of those would have gotten caught via facial recognition. Instead I see, “yay I booked my hotel right there on the Capitol mall, got my flight for that morning!”. Social media posts “So happy to be here inside the Capitol to support my favorite President! #lovetrump They can’t steal this from us!”.

Even so, it would have been as waste of time as it never seemed like there was a path to changing anyone’s minds on the election outcome.