Beware when rich people and corporations seek to rehabilitate the reputations of those who tried to seize power on Jan 6.

They did that to the survivors of the slave-owners, and gave us a century of Jim Crow.

After a US court ordered Georgia to reverse a fraudulent voter purge, Raffensperger used a series of tricks and maneuvers to avoid letting those almost 200,000 voters vote in the Jan 5 runoffs.

The wrecker forced out the US attorney for Georgia and put in a replacement loyal to him. This was evidently meant as part of his efforts to steal the election there.

To defend against a future fascist president, we need to make it more difficult for the president to arbitrarily fire US attorneys, and the attorney general. But whose approval should be required for firings? A majority of the senate? The courts? I don't see an obvious good answer.

The insurrection was more violent than appeared in the immediate coverage.

Everyone: call on companies to stop funding extremist US candidates.