B0ycey wrote:Are you seriously claiming this was an attempted coup?
It was lazy because there was no actual attempt to do anything of the sort. Had there been an attempt they could have rounded everyone up. They took photos and pissed off home whilst claiming things they didn't act on amongst themselves. Your government was never in danger of falling. And if you think otherwise then you are frankly stupid.
Like everything else in his life, Trump half-assed his 'coup d'etat'. He must have known that it couldn't possibly succeed, because the leadership of the armed forces loathe and despise him, as he well knew. I suspect this is why he didn't personally lead the march on the Capitol, and why he was very careful in his choice of words that day. He knew it would fail, and leave his own loyal followers hanging out to dry. He just wanted to frighten and piss off the people whom he blamed for 'stealing' his second term as POTUS from him. In other words, he was willing to traumatise and humiliate his nation on the world stage, and to permanently damage the credibility of American democracy, merely because he was having a temper tantrum and wanted to throw his toys out of the pram. This behaviour seems perfectly reasonable to Donald Trump because he recognises nothing in this world greater than himself. Not the Congress, not the American nation, not the American people, not the entire human race. Nothing.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)