The Department of War's aggressive name, while doing nothing to change the actual state of the U.S. military, is nothing more than “pretense of power” theatrics.
This isn't a moment for partisanship. It's also not a moment for division. And it’s certainly not a moment to cherry-pick which incidents of political violence count and which do not.
In accepting the 'big lie' theory, the Republicans risk losing their political soul by becoming nothing more than representatives of the biased totalitarian ideology of Trumpism.