"Trump incited an armed resurrection" on 1/6. I'm highlighting how ridiculous that narrative is and how equally ridiculous it was for the media and the left in general to front it for 3 and a half years.

It was a ridiculous attempt, to be sure, because it was a last ditch attempt- a Hail Mary attempt, undertaken because all of his previous attempts had failed.

+The Stop The Count attempt, including what we saw in Detroit- a white mob summoned by Trump from Oakland County- attempting a Brooks Brothers reprise in Wayne County, beating on the doors of the counting center and shouting “Stop the Count”

+The lawsuit filed by Abbott in Texas against the state of Pennsylvania, attempting to throw out the votes of millions

+The 60+ Keystone Cops lawsuits filed by Rudy’s team of misbegotten lawyers (it hasn’t gone well for any of them ever since)

+ The failed “false electors” scheme, which attempted to substitute fake slates of electors for slates of electors legitimately elected by voters in several key states.

This last scheme would have succeeded if:

a. Pence had caved to Trump’s full court press on him….

In my opinion, the full court press was not so much aimed at having Pence recognize the false slates of electors….

As it was an effort (aided by scores of recalcitrant Republican congresscritters who were already fomenting and ultimately voting not to certify) to throw the matter into the House, where Republicans were ready (and salivating) to declare Trump the next President.

Had Pelosi not insisted in calling the House back into session on the sixth…. And had Mike Pence not denied the demand by the Secret Service to whisk him away to a “secret location” where he might not have been able to preside over the reconvened Senate…..(remember- Republicans already had a plan for this scenario)

January 6th might have had a very different outcome.

Yes…..The insurrectionists succeeded in disrupting the electoral count. But their ultimate failure came about because they failed, by only a matter of hours, to delay it long enough to succeed in throwing the matter to the House.

Would the American people have stood for such an outcome?

Stay tuned. The new and improved “Stop the Steal version 2” is coming to a neighborhood near you, beginning in 39 days.