From the comments section of a National Review online article here, in places the argument holds, buT then a situational what about is m smashes it .

C’mon man, after all they live in the same pseudoreality as Conman-in-Chief Biden who also claims the 6Jan2021 riot at the Capital was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War”, overlooking, ignoring, or plan ole having lost memory of:  10Nov1898, Wilmington SC; 2Jul1915, Captiol Bldg, Washington DC; 7Dec1941; 1Mar1954, Capitol Bldg, PRNP, Washington DC; 2May1967, Sacramento CA; 1Mar1971, Capitol Bldg, Washington DC; 29Jan1975, State Dept, Washington DC and Oakland CA; 30Mar1981, Hinckley, Washington DC; 7Nov1983, M19, Capitol Bldg, Washington DC; 19Apr1995, McVeigh and Nichols, OKC OK; 11Sept2001; 2002, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo; 15Apr2013, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston MA; 14Jun2017, Hodgkinson, Alexandria VA; as well as a year-worth of vandalism, looting, arson, and murder perpetrated in numerous cities and States throughout most of 2020 and continuing unto today, including at the time he asserted his delusional prevarication.

To be sure, the 6Jan2021 riot at the Capital was a bigger threat and bigger deal than Benghazzi 2012.  The reason it jumps ahead of some of them — particularly that last reference — and perhaps lies on a different plane where we study it as a separate thing with different problems 

— even if, sure sure, you would rather be at the Washington Capitol than at the OKC Federal Building on that day in 1995 BUT – 

— lies in it being a sanctioned act by Trump to overrule a democratic process of elections and transfer of power.

We are in definitions here.  No, 6Jan2021 riot was not as bad an attack on our democracy as 7December1941, or 10Nevember1898 — though some will insist on comparing it more closely to that one than this random National Review online commenter – 

But we are in an interesting realm of argument, one which probably sits more easily with the hyperbolic claim of voting restriction measures as “Jim Crow on Steroids” — with that one by definition — no, and it is a wash to me on whether the hyperbolicism of the charge focuses on the equitable problems or can get laughed away in its absurdity leaving no room to convince the unconvinced.

But this historical overview leads to a feeling of nitpicking.  “Hey.  We’ve had worse!”

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