Dope: In the minds of the left, we have to keep candidates off the ballot Because Reasons.

It's an interesting exercise, but not likely to succeed. So we're dead set on beating you in the election. As much as you deny it, it is your party, your side, that attempted to pull a self coup (a very undemocratic process), in which you attempted to thwart the will of millions of voters. Illegal as hell. Convictions with people spending decades behind bars for you Fearless Leader.

Rather than admit what was attempted, you concoct Fed agent provocateurs, blame what little police were there, etc. You spent weeks to months telling us "something big was going to happen", then it happens, then you deny it happened. So we piece it together, and it's bad. You can't admit that you tried to illegally stop the peaceful transfer of power and install a dictator ( an authoritarian narcissist0. Yes, you tried to resolve you differences by treason.