This was and is a slob coup
...an attempt to discredit and undermine the incoming administration and keep Trump in the spotlight after his presidency is over and exact some sore-losers’ vengeance. You could also call it an underachievers’ coup, since some of its participants and supporters count the hours of chaos and violence as a victory. ...
The underlying question is, did they think at all? Trump is notably shortsighted, always focused on the next grift and not the long game—which is why he’s in deep legal trouble and financial meltdown now, repudiated and isolated as a result of his most recent actions. In some ways his behavior since the election was more an emotional meltdown than a strategic plan, or a muddle of the two. It’s not working out well for him—or them—at this point. His followers have played too many video games or watched too many dumb superhero movies if they thought even several hundred violent mostly middle-aged white men with, at the time, modest amounts of weaponry, were somehow going to convince 340 million people domestically and eight billion abroad that a mob gets to choose the next president of the USA. ...
It would have generated more violence and chaos, but it would not have been the kind of victory they fantasize about, which is the domestic-violence perpetrator’s unthinking fantasy that by further harassing his ex-wife he can make her love him again. (Possibly because he thinks of this as a display of manly power.) Many among them apparently thought they could beat the nation into submission, specifically the submission to minority rule that overturning the results of the election would have meant.
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https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-the-empty-violence-of-the-underachievers-coup/?fbclid=IwAR2BoENO7H5yPSxRHRMFxfojkkJgDH065beTPawmKW2B01cQgfRsD2huvJk
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