Late last month the Republican National Committee passed a resolution by voice vote expelling two sitting Republican members of Congress from the party. Along the way, the RNC committed an egregious unforced error, the kind that in sports leads to disappointing losses in tennis championships and Super Bowls. Through inadvertence or awesome tone-deafness, the RNC resolution wording allows enemies in the press and the Democratic Party to simplistically and somewhat misleadingly accuse the RNC of labeling all of the actions of demonstrators in the Capitol Building on January 6 as "legitimate protest."