On January 11, 2021 Erick Erickson believed a Trump-inspired insurrection had taken place on January 6.

By 2024, it’s dismissed as “a left/media talking point.”

I see some people calling this hypocrisy or cowardice, but my view is conservatives who know Trump is a dangerous criminal but line up behind him anyway are making a rational calculus that this is the best way to ban abortion and keep rich people’s taxes low.