2020 Election - The curtain starts coming down

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It seems some police officers were very helpful with the insurrectionists:
These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol

But they could not find Mr. Schumer’s office. He said they asked a Capitol Police officer, who tried to direct them. But they appeared to have gotten nowhere near the minority’s leader’s office. They ended up smoking a few cigarettes inside the building — “We can smoke in our house,” Aaron said — and one of his friends, who would not give his name, joked that he had gone to the bathroom and not flushed.

Others had zip ties with them so at least we can infer they wanted to take hostages, plus the pipe bombs, plus beating a cop to death with a fire extinguisher. We were damn lucky that it failed as fast as any business Donald Trump is involved in, and that DC's gun laws prevented most of them from taking their toys. But next time? And there will be a next time, with someone smarter at the helm.

To me I look at them, a mix of people wearing shirts bearing neo-Nazi slogans, Confederate flag bearer bros, your run of the mill skinhead or two, and a few dozen gentlefolk rejected during Duck Dynasty casting calls, and I can't help but think back to this bit from Ash Knight:

        "Why are we here?"
        Saionji gave his student a sidelong look.  "Philosophy isn't one of your usual hobbies," he said.
        "No, not in an abstract sense.  I mean, what are we doing -here-?  These people... "  He hesitated, fidgeting.
        "Go ahead," Saionji said.  "Never hesitate to speak your mind to me, Ani."
        "... Well... it's just that most of them are -losers-," Anakin said.  To his surprise, the remark drew a snort of laughter from his teacher.
        "That's true - more true than you know," Saionji said.

All of these folks are history's rejects.  And even when they invade our government on a fluke, a few hours later we go back to what we were doing, denounce them a bit, and move on.  Trump is a loser, and so are all of his followers.