Republics don't fall internally because their 'armies are defeated'. These are 'coups' and they mean to overthrow the legitimacy of the government. It happens

Republics don't fall internally because their 'armies are defeated'. These are 'coups' and they mean to overthrow the legitimacy of the government. It happens all the time in other countries. This was a 'coup by mob' with obvious incitement (but not technically direct) by Trump & Co. "The election is illegitimate" "Mike Pence must stop the count" "Everyone come to Washington and we will protest the count" "Walk with me down Pennsylvania avenue" "This is political combat, we need to fight and never give up" There are parallels to BLM, but the fundamental difference is the violent mob wanted to stop Pence from validating the election results, which is a very scary existential form of interference going right to the core of the Republic. There are legal consequences to this: if Pence does not validate the vote, then in fundamentally calls into question the legitimacy of Biden. If that transaction doesn't take place, then 'Who is President' in a few weeks is completely ambiguous. How would SCOTUS rule? And does it matter? Trump is playing straight out of the '3rd World Despot Playbook' - this is pretty much how it goes down in the Congo. This insurrection would have physically been deal with, surely, but it could very easily snowball into something much worse. Revolutions to start with a starting gun, they build up to a crescendo, one event propagating to the next. Consider this: during the insurrection, Trump was not calling for people to stand down, he was not coordinating with Pence, he was not calling in the National Guard - you know what he was doing? He was on the phone with members of Congress who were on lockdown the phone being passed among them while he pressured them to 'stop the steal' and to thwart Mike Pence's vote count. If that isn't straight up Treason what is? What happened on Capitol Hill was not dangerous for the momentary bit of violence, it was dangerous because it's a strike to the essential foundations of the Republic. Finally - I don't know what the RNC had to do with any of this, which is why I asked.