There are many ways to describe what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
It was an insurrection, a riot, an attempt to violently overthrow the results of a legitimate presidential election.
It was the predictable outcome of Donald Trump’s relentless, desperate Big Lie about Joe Biden’s victory and his thinly veiled calls for mayhem.
It was an intelligence failure of epic proportions on the part of the FBI and law enforcement agencies charged with protecting the Capitol and its occupants.