>> We literally had an attempted coup >Despite what you may have been told, the intentions of the vast majority of the people of the people there is unknown.

>> We literally had an attempted coup >Despite what you may have been told, the intentions of the vast majority of the people of the people there is unknown. This doesn't matter - we're describing the actions and expected results, not the delusions of the pawns involved. January 6 was so objectively a coup that if you described it to people in ancient Greece, they would recognize it as a coup. To quote a blog by a doctorate professor of ancient history: >No ancient Greek would have had any trouble in understanding what happened on the 6th or that it was a serious attempt (albeit an incompetent one) to seize power. Having a leader or a political faction move with a mob (often armed, but not always so) to try to disperse the normal civic assemblies of a Greek polis and occupy their normal meeting place was a standard maneuver to try to seize power during stasis. As Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, an ancient Greek history specialist, noted in this excellent discussion on the r/AskHistorians reddit (where he posts as Iphikrates), “In the Greek world, most attempts to seize power by force tended to take the same form: the seditious party would contrive an opportunity to gather in arms while their opponents were unarmed and off-guard, and seize control of all public spaces.” Emphasis not mine. https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-ancient-and-modern-and-also-meet-the-academicats/ https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-anci... (note: the domain name has nothing to do with coups, it's just the acronym for A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantries)