Subject: Re: To Be clear
The question you are avoiding is "Were we close to losing our democracy?

It’s an irrelevant question. If we were, and it succeeded, then there is no remedy.

Therefore it is only important that it was “an attempt.” It clearly was “an attempt”, just like holding up a drug store but not coming away with any loot.

No one is avoiding the question. You’re trying to be too cute by half. This sort of nonsense doesn’t stand in any legal sense, and a court would throw you out or admonish you for continuing to try an irrelevant tactic.