I agree with most of this, but I take exception to this:
The consensus around here has been that * they pose no threat to the state*
This clearly is no longer the case. They attacked the literal seat of state power. The bourgeois state always thinks it can contain fascists elements within its ranks up until it can't. 1/6 was alarming because it signaled that a not insignificant portion of the population is wiling to challenge the states monopoly on power in order to usher in an age of fascism and minority, undemocratic rule. It was a clear escalation. That's not something that we on the left should brush off as being insignificant. It's an important mile-marker. If anything, it should signal to us on the left the fierce urgency of now. So yes, while we have been screaming about state abuse of power over minority communities for a long time and the pockets of fascism that have always existed, we cannot dismiss when the right-wing mobilizes and ups the ante in an effort to seize total control over the entire state apparatus. If we can correctly identify the danger posed by the state when they abuse the institutions of repression they have at their disposal, then we should be even more alarmed when blood-lust fascists seek to seize those institutions with the express intent of expanding those repressive forces.
I agree with most of this, but I take exception to this:
This clearly is no longer the case. They attacked the literal seat of state power. The bourgeois state always thinks it can contain fascists elements within its ranks up until it can't. 1/6 was alarming because it signaled that a not insignificant portion of the population is wiling to challenge the states monopoly on power in order to usher in an age of fascism and minority, undemocratic rule. It was a clear escalation. That's not something that we on the left should brush off as being insignificant. It's an important mile-marker. If anything, it should signal to us on the left the fierce urgency of now. So yes, while we have been screaming about state abuse of power over minority communities for a long time and the pockets of fascism that have always existed, we cannot dismiss when the right-wing mobilizes and ups the ante in an effort to seize total control over the entire state apparatus. If we can correctly identify the danger posed by the state when they abuse the institutions of repression they have at their disposal, then we should be even more alarmed when blood-lust fascists seek to seize those institutions with the express intent of expanding those repressive forces.