No. of Recommendations: 16
Absolutely delusional. There was no way that the rag tag group of rioters, even if they killed Pence, that they were going to take over the US government. Pence is dead, the rioters are in the capitol, Trumps rides in and says I am your leader. Do you actually think the rest of the country would just shrug and say OK? Absolutely delusional.
Of course it would have failed; that doesn’t mean they didn’t mean to do it. A lot of stupid insurrections are put down for various reasons: they don’t truly have the will of the people behind them, or they are badly formed and executed, or they don’t have the right resources, or the empire strikes back, and so on.
To use Adolph here without invoking Godwin’s law, he tried to overthrow the German government with the so-called “Beer Hall Putsch” in 1923. It was a rag-tag bunch of misfits who thought they were starting a revolution that would sweep the countryside. Didn’t happen, of course. And we often see the same absurd though process every time we hear of a bunch of racists who want to go out and kill black people (or other minorities), hoping to start a “race war”. By contrast, the Russian Revolution was, in fact, started by a rag tag bunch of misfits - and the peasants and other malcontents *did* follow.
Here’s what was intended: To keep Trump in power, even though he lost the election - both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote. That is the very definition of an “insurrection.”
