[timapplesauce]

> Look at how freaking close an incompetent reality show star came to overthrowing the country.

Not very close at all. Unless you think American democracy is so fragile that a few dozen unarmed protesters that walked into an unlocked Capital building and caused a bit of mischief and vandalism is enough to overthrow the country.

[WarOnPrivacy]

I think a much stronger threat stems from Trump's blatant lies about systemic and wide spread election fraud - that are fueling unwarranted distrust in the election system.

This is prompting election-lie advocates to run for state-level election offices. We have impeccable supervisors of elections (both parties) who have received numerous death threats, for simply showing how election fraud allegations are false.

Florida has created an entire law enforcement agency to find election fraud where it doesn't exist.

All of this exists even after courts all over the country bench slapped every one of the bogus election lawsuits.

I submit that any implication that there wasn't meaningful harm done - or that widespread meaningful harm isn't ongoing - falls far short of the mark.

[mikewarot]

>Unless you think American democracy is so fragile

"But none of the founders had the day Benjamin Franklin had. As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

[stoplying1]

Which is why protestor hung a noose, came within 40 ft of Mike Pence, Mike Pence refused to get in the car with Trump's SS, that's why Trump wanted to march with armed protestors. Domestic terrorists occupied Congress, caused our legislative and executive branch to go into hiding. There are strong indications that there is still significant info to come and that Trump expected violence.

Are you glued to Fox News, lying to yourself, or just flat out being disingenuous?

[timapplesauce]

Nothing you mentioned would have overthrown the country. Violent regime change happens almost exclusively via military actions or widespread popular uprisings.

The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump and the group that protested that day was not large enough to effect regime change.

[moistly]

> The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump

I certainly am not confident in your claim. And if the military had stepped in to prevent a federal coup, I think America would have fragmented into several state coalitions. In all cases, the nation has been badly harmed by the rioters and the insurrectionists that led them. Indeed, we’ve yet to see whether the US remains a democracy: several states are doing all they can to dissuade and prevent citizens from voting, or gerrymandering the districts. It’s a knife’s edge now; the country could easily fall to authoritarianism.

[mikewarot]

The lies Trump told have taken hold, despite all evidence to the contrary. A large portion of the adult population no longer believes in Representative Democracy. They believe the election in 2020 was stolen.

This is a cancer on our Republic that will likely prove fatal.

[barelysapient]

Oh jesus, calm the fuck down.

We've had an _actual_ revolution where people actually fought and killed each other for years over the rules we wanted to live under. I'd say that was a real threat to the Democracy.

A bunch of retarded white Rambo wannabees changes nothing.

Don't worry, we'll get to vote again and again for years to come for same shitty unpopular candidates because they have the right color/letter next to their name.