It was that peaceful transfer that Trump and his minions sought to obstruct and almost succeeded in overthrowing when Joe Biden was elected president. Talk of that military option led the CIA Director to predict that “we are on the way to a right-wing coup”. Trump’s Republican party has all but erased or openly embraced the violence of 6 January. Leading up to the 2020 election, Trump supporters had run a Biden campaign bus off the road in Texas, plotted to kidnap the Democratic governor in Michigan and stirred up brutal attacks across the country. The base is being primed for more violence in the run-up and aftermath of the next election.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2022 09:55 UTC