Failure

 It's worth noting just how profound a failure the Beerbelly Putsch was ten days ago. As scary as it was and as scary as it remains, the insurrectionists had one primary goal: re-elect Donald Trump in the face of what they perceived as massive voter fraud and to demonstrate the resolve of "patriotic Americans" in the face of this new multiracial "Unamerican" 21st century.

So, where do we stand?

Trump has been impeached again and will leave office in four days. The putsch attempt has led to the fracturing of the Republican Party as to whether they will return to the party of the Chamber of Commerce and subtle contempt for the will of the people or become the party of QAnon and open contempt for the will of the people. The FBI, which has soft-peddled surveillance and enforcement against Rightist terror groups will now - especially under Biden - throw massive amounts of resources to make sure 1/6 never happens again.

Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and the rest of the Sedition Caucus are under tremendous scrutiny. It would be hilarious if ambulatory Parler thread, Lauren Boebert, were to be arrested before the end of her first term, but that seems almost likely at this point.

There is a fundamental delusion at the heart of all of this: that Trumpists make up the true majority of Americans. They were a majority on election day and they would activate that majority on 1/6. 

None of this is true.

Not that truth has ever really mattered to these yahoos, but it seems as if 1/6 was a tipping point where the truth is starting to manifest itself with arrests and job losses.