Then, curiously enough, the thugs who show up on Jan. 6th with preordained plans for violence -- including the convicted seditionists in the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers -- insist that they believed they were supposed to have been deputized under the Insurrection Act, giving the color of law to the violence perpetrated on Trump's behalf.

What a strange idea! Except for the part where they guy who THOUGHT he was going to be Attorney General thought the same thing.