So I keep seeing people compare this to the Reichstag Fire, as a means of Trump attaining Hitlerian power.
But the result is completely opposite.
Democrat officials are calling for the expulsion of several, if not every, Republican representative. Anyone who objected to the vote ratification is looking down the barrel of whatever process the Democrats invent to 'hold them accountable'.
Everyone is calling for everyone involved to be hunted down by the FBI and jailed or killed, including people who have been wanting the police defunded this whole time.
I don't think this was a false flag, Trump Supporters definitely entered the building. But it very well may have been a trap, and if not a deliberate one, then one on which they've capitalized. I'm not going to argue taking the high road for the optics, because the events of this week haven't introduced any new characterizations to the narrative, they were already saying all these things.
If this was Reichstag, it wasn't for Trump.
Could be he's simply old. He has his money, he isn't going to risk what little life he has left.
I think the younger members of the GOP fall neatly into three categories:
a handful of patriots struggling with the realization that we have no institutional power whatsoever
careerist politicians who will go along to get along no matter what
democrats in conservative clothing, eagerly seizing any opportunity to go against the constituents they actually hate
I don't see how all of this doesn't lead to the rise of a nationalist populist third party, and I foresee big tech and establishment government shredding the last bits of the Constitution in order to prevent that third party from rising to power.