AP source: Lawmakers threatened ahead of impeachment trial

Any soldier or sailor that acted like this would certainly be court-martialed in absentee, why does this kind of leadership get condoned by Republicans by tangential disregard, but if a Democrat does it-it's Socialism or Communism.
Oh, I know why: the Republicans want to demonstrate there failure to get rid of identity politics among Democrats, but have no problem adopting it for themselves.

Of course they are, that's why they also planned to do things like kidnap the MI governor. You are correct, this is exactly why they need to be held accountable under the rule of law. Everyone that turned protests into riots needs to be, all over. This incident was particularly egregious as it was an attempt to overthrow our government and the punishments need to reflect that.