Pro-Trump website "The Donald confirms detailed plans to storm Capitol

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17. Bloodshed on BOTH SIDES was miraculously avoided, much of it by sheer dumb luck.

If the counterrevolutionaries had enough strength and tactical skill to hold on to a portion of the Capitol building, they would have brought in the weaponry that was stored outside of the Capitol grounds. That was the plan.

They also just missed, by a whisker, physically confronting the USSS who were protecting Pence and possibly others. If those confrontations had actually happened and there were attempts to capture Pence and others, the Secret Service would have opened fire and the casualty number would have climbed significantly. And the Secret Service would have prevailed. They knew that "this was not a drill."

We should remember that planned physical violence, like war, ALWAYS has the risk of falling into chaos. War is always chaotic. And the storming of the Capitol by paramilitaries was an unofficial act of war. Quite often strategic and tactical plans do NOT go according to design. Too many variables are always at play.

I've had plenty of doubts that the justice system will respond by holding ALL participants accountable, and I share with some of the posters the impatience of a slow process that seemingly drags on forever. I've surmised that there may even be a reluctance by a network of prosecutors to indict and arrest Trump and several members of Congress due to a fear of a wider social uprising in defense of Trump's refusal to acknowledge his electoral loss. Because of the deliberate and thorough investigative process that must be followed in order to secure air-tight cases that would lead to convictions, our impatience can lead to other hypotheses about power dynamics and conspiracies. Let's hold on and monitor the wheels of justice, and presume faith in the system as a guardian against insurrection. It just might work.