UpdatedMon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:04 am ET Replies(2) FBI post Photo of the the riot Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol posted by the FBI in an effort to identify people. (InDepth NH) To the person holding a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I don't have a hammer. As a lawyer, though, I look at what happened in Washington and I find failures of law. As a writer, I find failures of theme. As a parent, I find failures of guidance. And as a person of faith, I find failures of faith. Subscribe We have long relied on unwritten rules to police our political activities. Certain things aren't done because we have never done them. Presidents don't hide their taxes. Presidents don't sell their own goods to the government. Presidents don't pardon their business cronies. Presidents don't put their own political interests ahead of the country's security interests. Presidents don't write with sharpies on maps given out by the weather service. Presidents don't call their vice presidents "pussies" for refusing to sanction election fraud. Presidents don't themselves promote election fraud.