Understanding the Lack of Security at the U.S. Capitol

I guess we’re all wondering how it was possible that security at the U.S. Capitol was so weak on January 6th that the building was easily compromised by hundreds of angry Trump supporters.  I know I personally have invested a lot of mental cycles into this matter.

But now it seems quite plausible that no one anticipated that loyal followers of the “law and order” party, and the backers of “blue lives matter” would smash into the most central icon of American democracy and beat a policeman to death with a fire extinguisher.

If the chief of that police department said later, “Sorry, but I defy anyone to have foreseen such a circumstance,” it would be very difficult to argue with him.  He could also add, “I had no idea that these people had been planning for months to swarm in here with guns and bombs in an armed rebellion against their country.”

Keep in mind all the decisions about security were put in place before the President of the United States told the crowd that, because the election was stolen, they all needed to “fight like hell” to block the certification process, then sit around and watch the mayhem on TV for a few hours.