The video cocco posted is worth watching. I hadn't seen that footage, and I'm revising my opinion.

It wasn't 3 people saying they were after Pence. There was a crowd chanting to lynch him.

The cute pictures of people smiling and taking selfies and walking off with a podium are a gross mischaracterization of the event.
Not everyone was violent, but there were large crowds of violent people - trying to force their way past police lines - breaking through locked doors - telling police to move out of the way because they didn't want the police to get hurt, and the mob was NOT going to stop because of those police.

I'm not willing to go full insurrection, but there were plenty of people there who very much seem to me to have wanted to lynch a number of top politicians in order to overturn the democratic election.


For all your love of democracy, ong, I don't at all see how you can not see this as an affront to democracy.