Despite committing insurrection for Donald Trump, some of the Capitol attackers didn’t even vote for him in the 2020 election.<\/b>
\nDespite traveling to Washington, D.C. and being arrested for participating in a violent assault on the Capitol building in an attempt to \u201cStop the Steal\u201d (Read: physically prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election), it turns out that some of these insurrectionists skipped the easiest and most effective thing they could\u2019ve done to keep Donald Trump in office: actually vote. As the reality of the situation sets in, some of the alleged attackers have attempted to downplay their role in the MAGA coup by admitting that they didn\u2019t even vote in the last election, which county records are proving to be true. Others have had their non-voting outed by journalists in an attempt to understand what led to the Capitol attack. For people who claimed to be committed to preserving the \u201cConstitutional integrity of the election,\u201d they jumped right over actually participating in the process, which has some concerning implications. Via CNN: \u201cWhen we see that significant ideological groups are stopping participating in the Democratic process, that may mean they are looking for other ways to participate, and those other ways could be more violent,\u201d said [University of Massachusets Lowell professor Arie] Perliger, who oversees a database of right-wing extremist acts of violence in the United States. \u201cWe should be concerned if we see a growing number of ideological groups are reducing their involvement in electoral politics.\u201d A recent Wall Street Journal report has also shown that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones played an even larger in organizing the rally-turned-coup than he originally boasted. On top of covering a significant amount of the cost, Jones was also responsible for using siege-like rhetoric to incite attendees. \u201cDC becomes FORT TRUMP starting tomorrow on my orders!\u201d he apparently tweeted before the event. (Via CNN & Wall Street Journal)<\/p>\n