conviction between the rioters and the republican legislators who are working now to restrict the electorate or engineer the rules so that if the accident of a democratic victory ever occurs again, they can either reverse it or do something about it or prevent it from happening in the first place. the core idealogical conviction they share is democratic victories are illegitimate because the constituencies that vote for democrats are illegitimate. the republican party is the only legitimate representative of the american people and the only real american people are the ones who vote republican. so when you share that idealogical conviction, you might disagree about whether political violence is the right method for insuring your side wins or whether you can do it through the law, but ultimately, you share the fundamental belief that the other side is illegitimate, there is no legitimate way for them to win elections, for them to, you know, represent the people of the united states, because the people that they represent are not fundamentally american anyway. and there's simply no way to legislate that out of existence.