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Summoning a mob, led by violent militias, sending them to the Capitol to storm and take it, targeting leading political opponents to kill, with legal mechanisms put in place to steal the election - all that we know.
But think about it, how badly he wanted to go to the Capitol personally, with that violent mob trying to kill Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi and others.
How would that have played out, if it had gone as he liked?
It suggests to me that his desire was to be like Caesar conquering Rome - that the mob killed any opponents of his, that the Republicans declared him the winner of the election, and that he could begin a new type of reign in the country based on blood and terror - resist him and face murder, with his recently installed lackeys in charge of the security establishment.
How else could he have wanted it to play out, him with the violent rioters and insurrectionists seeking out his political opponents to kill? With his supporting the violence and refusing calls to end it?
But think about it, how badly he wanted to go to the Capitol personally, with that violent mob trying to kill Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi and others.
How would that have played out, if it had gone as he liked?
It suggests to me that his desire was to be like Caesar conquering Rome - that the mob killed any opponents of his, that the Republicans declared him the winner of the election, and that he could begin a new type of reign in the country based on blood and terror - resist him and face murder, with his recently installed lackeys in charge of the security establishment.
How else could he have wanted it to play out, him with the violent rioters and insurrectionists seeking out his political opponents to kill? With his supporting the violence and refusing calls to end it?