No. of Recommendations: 7
Yes, we discussed that on TMF before they closed the cool-people boards. ;-)
The big thing in our favor was that Trump was incompetent. He was incompetent as a POTUS, and he was incompetent as a would-be coup leader. As albaby said, they didn't really have a follow-up plan after stealing the election.
But the danger isn't Trump, or at least it isn't only Trump. He is a moron, and couldn't run a coup to save his life. The problem/danger/threat is that he had LOTS of people trying to make it happen (i.e. for a partial list, just check the recent indictments), and a mob of people willing to storm the Capitol and assassinate Pence, Pelosi, and others. And still more people that weren't there, but supported it. Those folks now are saying "get over it...nothing to see...move on".
The difference between them and me (and probably you) is that I can accept an election result. I hated that Trump won in 2016, but I accepted that in our EC system, he did win. Fast-forward to 2020, and roughly 1/3 of the nation didn't accept it, and some fraction of that wanted Republicans to take over everything and make the election say what they wanted it to say. THAT is a threat to democracy. And that's what we need to be concerned about, especially the next time the election doesn't go as the Trumpies (or Desantis-ies, or whomever) want.
