“Although Trump will eventually exit political life, the seditionists will not. They will remain, nursing their grievances, feverishly posting on social media, angrily listening to Tucker Carlson—the Fox News host has just told them that the federal troops in Washington, D.C., are ‘not there for your safety’ but because Democrats want to send a ‘message about power’—and energetically running for office. A member of the West Virginia state legislature filmed himself in the mob breaking into the Capitol on January 6: ‘We’re taking this country back whether you like it or not,’ he told his Facebook followers. A New Mexico county commissioner came home from the riots; bragged about his participation; and, according to authorities, told a public meeting that he planned to go back to D.C., but this time carrying firearms.” Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: Millions of Americans sympathize with the Capitol insurrection. Everyone else must figure out how to live alongside them.

+ WaPo: Top Fox News managers depart amid Murdoch’s concerns over controversial Arizona election night projection. (Translation: Murdoch’s lesson is that the network should have been even worse. If you work there, for eff’s sake, quit. It is not a news organization. It is an antiAmerican shitshow that costs thousands of American lives during the past year.)