And remember how the specific goal of the violent attack - overturning the election of President Joe Biden - was being advanced by sycophantic lawmakers who shamefully tried to invalidate the votes of an estimated 10 million Americans in Arizona and Pennsylvania and declare Donald Trump the winner?
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri apparently hope you don't remember any of that. Or that you'll treat it like one more bit of the normal back-and-forth of politics.
Not this time.
Cruz and Hawley, like others who endorsed and/or sought political benefit from the lies that brought chaos at the Capitol, are up against an enraged public. A public that will never forget one of the most vicious and serious attacks ever launched against American democracy.
What, in short, about Cruz and Hawley?
Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group, tweeted: "There is no room in Congress for people who incited the January 6th insurrection like Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley. They must go."
What the senators may not understand is that there's a very big difference between debating matters of legitimate dispute - like where to set tax rates or how to fund bridges, roads and schools - and giving credence and political support to dangerous, fact-free conspiracy theories.
Their colleagues in Congress and the public at large have been put on notice that some leaders have been playing with political dynamite - and that we must not risk letting them do so ever again.
