[kadoban]

They were there to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power of the government.

They came with weapons, human restraints (flex cuffs), and were calling out politicians they disagree with and explicitly looking for them.

The intention of several seems to have been to _at least_ take hostages if not worse. What would you call the threatening, kidnapping and possible murder of your political rivals for the express purpose of keeping your side in power? If that's not a coup I don't know what is. That they failed doesn't mean they didn't try.

[wpm]

Some people would say the coup isn’t happening while the Speaker of the House is swinging from a fucking rope.

It can’t be any clearer than it is now without more bloodshed and still people don’t want to believe it.

[kadoban]

I think part of it isn't really in bad faith, it is just some sort of magical thinking, along the lines of: "a coup is something that happens over _there_, those places we see only on the news".