I haven’t run many revolutions in my time so I’m not sure what you need to pull them off. Control of the TV station & defence ministry seems a bit old fashioned. Mass support is probably helpful but not essential as most people are sheep with real life to get on with.

Given ..

.. Trump’s mob planned to prevent the count, what was going to happen next? Actually, I reckon in this case mass support probably was needed to take over state senate buildings, the courts etc. & somehow produce a ‘corrected’ version of the national vote, allowing Trump ..

.. to cling on for 4 more years. If so, then he seems to have vastly over-estimated his personal appeal.

What about state institutions? These can be helpful in revolutionary times. Mostly the army of course. Congress seems to have been stripped of police protection despite ..

.. the obvious threat from the hot heads & Trump has been up to no good at the Pentagon recently. More needs to be unearthed about these things so as to get to the bottom of Trump’s sedition.

And he must be prosecuted. This was his party. He stoked it & wanted it & stood by ..

.. doing nothing while it played out, hoping others would take all the risks for him like a true coward.

Political nerds will study these events for decades to come, like the Paris Commune or the Arab Spring, or some episodic South American coup.

The anglo-saxon model is in ..

.. very deep trouble: galloping inequality, deregulation, no trickle down, paring down of public services. These are all right wing fetishes that bode ill. We may well soon be needing to know more about how to run a revolt.