House Democrats say that they’ll skip the election protests they’ve staged on Jan. 6 in past presidential cycles, four years after supporters of President-elect Trump stormed the Capitol in an attempt to interrupt the certification of the 2020 election results.

Democrats typically have used the formal certification of GOP presidential wins to air objections to how certain states carried out their elections.

But they’re treading much more carefully this year after four years in which they've accused Trump of directing his supporters to the Capitol for the explicit purpose of overturning President Biden's victory.

As Jan. 6 nears, and Republicans prepare to certify Trump’s win over Vice President Harris, the last thing Democrats want to do is open themselves to charges of hypocrisy on what they see as a fundamental rite of preserving democracy.

“I don't know of anybody that wants to do anything that's going to make it look like we're somehow questioning the election,” said Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas).

Democrats have protested election results in every cycle when a Republican won the White House for at least two decades, so the lack of protests will be a real change.

These past objections have always been symbolic, designed to highlight restrictive election laws or alleged violations of the Electoral College process in specific states.

They have come after the Democratic presidential candidate had already conceded defeat, with no chance — and no intent — of overturning the election results.

For those reasons, the Democrats fundamentally reject the comparison between their own objections and what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters, summoned to Washington by the then-president and egged on by his false claims of a “stolen” election, attacked law enforcement officers while storming the Capitol.

Later that night, a majority of House Republicans........

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