Last week, the Capitol was breached by a group of fringe Trump supporters who had bought into a series of lies: the lie President Donald Trump lost the election because of proven voter fraud and irregularity; the lie the Electoral College results, legally certified state by state, could be overturned by Congress or the vice president; the lie Trump would remain in office if only some sort of armed rebellion were to prevent the election certification by Congress. Those were lies. And those lies had deadly consequences.

Thankfully, the vast majority of Americans don’t believe those lies. Which means we should be able to unify around certain basic truths: Joe Biden is legally president-elect of the United States; violence in pursuit of political ends is a deep wrong, and those who participate in it should be punished to the full extent of the law; broad claims regarding invasion of rights ought to be backed by compelling evidence.

But we won’t.

Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side of History” and “Bullies.”

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