Thank you for rapidly making this distinction. I too saw Sexton’s error instantly.
In the immediate aftermath of the event in question, The Turtle, i.e. Mitch McConnell, immediately took to his trusty lectern in the U.S. Senate to refer to it as an “insurrection”, thereby giving license to his political enemies to do likewise.
Why do people, nominally conservative or Republican, do such things?
Why concede even an inch of the moral high ground to these reprobates? These sociopaths?
Most elected Republicans are in reality just Assistant Democrats.