1/6 was a highly organized coup attempt, carried out by the Trump administration
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This was obvious at the time to law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the federal government.
The vast majority of even well-informed people are still in denial about this.
After the initial shock wore off, the Republican party collectively decided that the 1/6 attempted coup was a good thing, and that it would do everything it could to ensure that the next attempt wouldn’t fail.
This is why I get some grim amusement from the comments to this post that argue that Trump can’t win the general election in 2024, as if we are still living in the Before Time.
There isn’t going to be anything resembling a normal election in 2024, because the right wing in this country is now completely committed to living their truth, which is that Democrats don’t win elections legitimately. This started out as a paranoid delusion, but now it’s an Article of Faith, that can’t be abandoned, because it’s become so intimately connected to their tribal identity.
They won’t accept defeat, period, and we need to be ready for that.