"I'm not going to defend anybody that committed violence or destruction of property. But that's not an insurrection," said Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from McConnell's home state of Kentucky.

When asked what he considers to be an insurrection, Massie responded: "I don't know what it is, but this wasn't anywhere close."

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller