Imagine having a giant mob willing to march and take the fucking capitol, doing it while the police supported you and the army looked to their bellies, and not even getting concesions out of it. WORSE: your movement and party is shitting itself after it.
I really believe they could have pulled something IF Trump wasn't Trump.
It certainly shows where our weak points are to a coup. Citations Needed did a quick episode on this already, the night of. They had one take that really stuck with me. Along the lines of the phrase "Fascism is when the power of empire is used against the core", the methods of encouraging a coup here, were the same as those used a year ago in Bolivia. They don't have to specifically call for violence. They just have to broadcast over and over, with legal efforts to back it up, that the election was stolen. The very implication is that the foundation of the country's government is being stolen, and the logical defense to that is force.