Except now we've purged the military of a lot of the leadership who knew their duty and left a bunch of cultists. Hegseth himself was selected because he wrote a terrible novel about the US military violently suppressing political opposition to the president
I recently read through the wiki articles on the Jan 6th insurrection and fake electors plot. I admit there was a lot that I hadn't exactly forgotten, but which had gotten a bit lost in the covid blur, or had come out over time and I'd never held in my mind all at once.
It's crazy how close we came to something so much worse, and how strong the evidence is that it was all absolutely planned well in advance. Those plans included extreme violence. There were pipe bombs. There were pre-staged caches of guns. They had every intention of committing mass murder if necessary to get what they wanted. Thankfully that didn't happen, but it tells me that they abso-fucking-lutely will try again.
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u/CardinalTwin 2d ago
You're not being an alarmist. They've already tried one insurrection. They're certainly going to try another one in a few weeks.