> Maybe that wasn't the goal, as it also wasn't the goal of most of the Trump protestors. People were talking about storming Congress months ago: > “Will you

> Maybe that wasn't the goal, as it also wasn't the goal of most of the Trump protestors. People were talking about storming Congress months ago: > “Will you and several hundred more go with me to DC and fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participated in the coup?” Holland posted on Friday. “We may have to shoot and kill many of the Communist BLM and ANTIFA Democrat foot soldiers to accomplish this!!!” * https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/11/cops-n11.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/11/cops-n11.html > One of Lang Holland’s posts reflected Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden was stolen, and said: “Death to all Marxist Democrats.” > Holland, who led the police department in Marshall, Arkansas, also wrote “take no prisoners” and “leave no survivors”. * https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/local-arkansas-police-chief-quits-violence-democrats https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/local-arkans... > In a popular thread referencing a Trump tweet promoting the debunked conspiracy theory of election fraud, one user asked, "what if Congress ignores the evidence?" > "Storm the Capitol," was a popular reply. > Five days later, on January 6, as pro-Trump militia proceeded to do exactly that, the mood on thedonald.win switched to jubilation and outright defiance of police, with thousands joining "watching party" message threads. > "This is what Trump told us to do!" a top post in one of these threads read. * https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-01-08/us-capitol-storming-planned-for-weeks-online-social-media/13039302 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-01-08/us-capitol-st...