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It's really worth remembering how this works, at least - how people with guns storming the democratic seat of government wasn't how it started. It started with people quietly seeing just how far they could push things, normalising more and more of what was previously unthinkable.
It was cemented by attacks on the media to weaken their ability to hold power to account, and a concerted effort to undermine the trust between government and people in general, making it easier in the end to persuade them that even a clear, fair election result was a conspiracy.
It relentlessly exploited the gap between the spirit and the letter of the law, while arguing that if someone you don't like made a law then you didn't have to abide by it anyway. And it upended decency to the extent that political principle became seen as weakness and failure.
Only then do the people with guns arrive, when they think they've broken down enough of the barriers to their success that they could actually win that way. And they were almost right this time.
