Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
While I would agree this isn't a coup per se, it's mostly due to incompetence and not a lack of trying. Trump did just try and pressure an elected official to rig the results for him after all.
|
Oh, Trump would absolutely like it to be a coup. He has, in his own flailing and incompetent way, attempted to effect one behind the scenes by pressuring people to overturn an election that wasn't even terribly close, in the end. But a mob of people randomly installing themselves in offices in the Capitol with no actual endgame other than "we'll stay here until we get bored or they remove us" doesn't really qualify as an attempt to overthrow the duly installed government and replace it with another.