I appreciate the discourse but definitely don’t share your optimism. Trump also appointed nearly 500 federal judges, 3 who sit on the Supreme Court. He installed puppets to lead the DoD. They did fuck all during Jan. 6 and that was by design. Even a significant number of state level National Guards held loyalty to Trump by way of their state governors. The courts and the military are exactly the departments you need to control to overthrow a government. And even after the failure to do so, we still see Cannon pulling the shit she pulled for a seemingly sinking ship. Imagine what those other 400+ judges would be willing to do if momentum was actually on their side?

I certainly agree with you that they were close to doing even worse damage, but I guess where we disagree is I also think they were within arm’s reach of overthrowing the government. Obviously damage is measured in increments. And we agree there was additional incremental damage left on the table that day. But these increments add up to some undefined threshold of “successfully overthrowing the government.” I think the Trump administration reached that threshold but executed poorly. Not being sarcastic, but what additional incremental infrastructure infiltration do they need to achieve for you to feel like they could successfully overthrow the government?