Your mistake is to presume we’re still operating as a constitutional republic. We aren’t. Post constitutional, it’s just a matter of who has the power. We know he doesn’t have it in Congress, but the premise of the IA argument is that Congress and SCOTUS ARE the insurrection. Congress has rendered themselves irrelevant. Does Trump have the power from the people and the military. That’s the only question that matters.

You’re mistake is to presume we’re still operating as a constitutional republic. We aren’t. Post constitutional, it’s just a matter of who has the power. We know he doesn’t have it in Congress, but the premise of the IA argument is that Congress and SCOTUS ARE the insurrection. Congress has rendered themselves irrelevant. Does Trump have the power from the people and the military. That’s the only question that matters.