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Private sector power is unelected, except insofar as we elect them through our patronage. We have accepted to transfer the public square to the management and control of private companies. We did that to ourselves, they did not do that to us.

By strict legal definition, the people who breached the Capitol building and forced a delay in the certification of electors, committed sedition. However, sedition prosecutions are rare because 1st Amendment protections provide enormous latitude for political protest and freedom of expression (so far). The Wisconsin capitol building was literally occupied by Democratic protesters, not for…