Liberals think power works like Duck Duck Goose. All you need to do to become king is to sneak your butt into the throne. They literally can't tell the difference between a riot in the capital (Jan 6th) and a nation-wide insurgency culminating in a seige of the capital.
Probably the same reason they thought Hong Kong was going to be a revolution when the demonstrators got into the parliament and spraypainted the chamber.
This is probably also why libs believe in moral contagion through movies and books. They also thought the cast of Hamilton talking to Mike Pence would do something.
This is going too far in the right direction. Sure, in hindsight, it's easy to see how disorganized the chuds were and easy to reach the conclusion that there was no possible way it could have accomplished anything significant. But it did create a chaotic situation and at least a credible pretense of popular support for Trump, all while you have Trump openly saying he wants to remain in power and while you have a bunch of high-ranking opposing politicians trapped right there in one building. If a coup is carefully building a campfire and deliberately starting it, this was something like shoving a bunch of mediocre kindling into a pile and passing the matches around. It didn't happen, but it created conditions where it could happen.
Liberals think power works like Duck Duck Goose. All you need to do to become king is to sneak your butt into the throne. They literally can't tell the difference between a riot in the capital (Jan 6th) and a nation-wide insurgency culminating in a seige of the capital.
Probably the same reason they thought Hong Kong was going to be a revolution when the demonstrators got into the parliament and spraypainted the chamber.
This is probably also why libs believe in moral contagion through movies and books. They also thought the cast of Hamilton talking to Mike Pence would do something.
The knots people twist themselves into when they believe history is driven by ideas.
This is going too far in the right direction. Sure, in hindsight, it's easy to see how disorganized the chuds were and easy to reach the conclusion that there was no possible way it could have accomplished anything significant. But it did create a chaotic situation and at least a credible pretense of popular support for Trump, all while you have Trump openly saying he wants to remain in power and while you have a bunch of high-ranking opposing politicians trapped right there in one building. If a coup is carefully building a campfire and deliberately starting it, this was something like shoving a bunch of mediocre kindling into a pile and passing the matches around. It didn't happen, but it created conditions where it could happen.