Blah blah electoralism, don’t treat politicians as heroes, I get it. But you know the more serious chuds planned to capture and probably execute any recognizable/non-white Democrat they could. And tbh it would be emotionally devastating. And they wouldn’t become martyrs for anything decent, in all likelihood.
Yeah but the freaks who stormed the Capitol were just as likely to lynch either Pence or Cruz. In fact quite a lot of them allegedly wanted to go hang Pence from a tree specifically.