• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I just said something similar in another thread, but for January 6th to happen, they had to be gathered in D.C. for a rally a significant amount of time after the election to give them plenty of time to get riled up, there were prominent Trump supporters on stage getting them riled up even more, then Trump himself showed up and told them to march (with him) to the Capitol and that is when the insurrection started.

    On top of that, you had the current president of the U.S. supporting them the entire time because he wanted to stay president.

    This is not going to have the same effect. The true die-hards are too spread out now. Could there be a few incidences here and there? Possibly. There won’t be riots.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      The true die-hards are too spread out now

      And a few hundred of them are still in jail after January 6th…