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When a president tries to overthrow the government, you'll see them plan and organize with key figures in the army, private industry, and government.
Donald Trump tried to give a speech in front of the political equivalent of a loosing team's sports riot. You want an actual coup? The supreme court awarded George Bush Jr. the presidency in 2000.
To be fair to the hysterical liberals who want to turn it into resistance 9/11, there was more to it than that. It was supposed to be a constitutional coup. The speech and the riot weren't supposed to be the main element, they were supposed to be the threat against his own people to go along with the plan. "Hang Mike Pence." Pence was supposed to take a list of fake electors and present them into the dumb ritual congress does to actually certify the election. Considering how feckless liberals are with pursuing power there's a nonzero chance it would have worked.
It absolutely would have worked. Liberals would have taken that bout of cheating squarely in the face and tried to argue against it through legitimate channels while the conservatives would have had them all thrown out for being 'anti-American commies' or whatever
Liberals would still be trying to instill order, hall monitor style, in the halls of parliament while Nazis were goose stepping through them
That's where it was always gonna break down, though. Trump just didn't have the sway over his own cabinet, let alone enough key figures to pull it off. Like, a serious bid for power wouldn't have hinged on publicly threatening the guy you need to do the legal chicanery. There was no real plan, just a fairy-tale to rationalize a long chain of hasty decisions made in the moment.
America even has performative coups lmao