Surely the biggest difference between successful breach of the Capitol and an unsuccessful attack on the White House is the defence? Clearly the attackers/rioters had malicious intent both times, clearly they very extremely violent. The only real difference is the success/failure of the security forces.
That's one of the biggest differences, yes... did I imply otherwise?
The other two are the trigger and the timing.
The trigger being the President, and the timing, while Congress was in session trying to confirm the next President were what took it even further into the public consciousness.
I don't read the news much, so this is the first I'm hearing of people attacking the White House. These supposedly Trump-supporters... were attacking Trump?
The Secret Service referred to it as a demonstration, but people who are upset that the alt-right invading Capitol is a big deal, so they want to retroactively create equivalency to everything that happened over the summer...
so this HN reader overruled the Secret Service and labeled it an attack
