Thread by @SethAbramson

It's time for Americans to fully wake up to what happened on January 6, 2021.

THE WASHINGTON POST: "As the Capitol was overrun, armed supporters of President Donald Trump were waiting across the Potomac in Virginia for orders to bring guns into the fray." washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…

When people ask me why so much of my writing is focused on the insurrection, it's because I know from hundreds of hours of research that we only narrowly escaped the beginning of a second civil war on that day, with Trump thereafter invoking the Insurrection Act to stay in power.

What we saw on our television screens January 6 was not the worst-case scenario. It was the best-case scenario. It is only through a series of incredibly lucky coincidences that all the chaos and failures of that day did not produce something significantly worse than what we saw.

I recently watched a video of heavily armed and armored white supremacist Proud Boys singing a white supremacist song as they marched on the Capitol with every plan and intention of taking and occupying that site. In the video, one of them even makes clear that that's their plan.

If the Oath Keepers had brought more guns to the scene...

If Officer Goodman had failed to draw the mob from the Senate door...

If the mob had gone down one hall rather than another and located Pence or Romney as they were yards away...

If Democratic staff had been captured...

If Trump had gone to the Capitol as he told the mob and many grassroots organizers he was planning to do...

If several entrances to the Capitol had not been held against the invaders as long as they were...

If Babbitt had been followed through that window by an unimpeded mob...

My point is that I've been researching and writing about the insurrection since the day it happened, and each new fact makes that day scarier rather than less scary.

When I call Donald Trump a domestic terror leader, I mean it quite seriously. He's a danger to the whole country.

The best estimate for how many invaders breached the Capitol on January 6 is 800. One or two things happen faster or slower and the many thousands that surrounded the building would've entered en masse and occupied it.

That's when the guns would've been brought in from Virginia.

The pandemic is the biggest story in America because it's the biggest story in the world—*and* because it touches not just on Americans' public health, but the whole of our economy.

The second-biggest story, which the media now largely ignores, is an ongoing domestic insurgency.

If media understood that we're in the midst of an ongoing domestic insurgency, it would understand that the hundreds of GOP bills intended to remove voting rights from Americans are the administrative face of a war on our democracy. I repeat—these bills are part of an insurgency.

Several days ago, I wrote an article at PROOF about the 2020 Trump campaign funding the insurrectionists' transportation on January 6.

One of the key insurrectionists mentioned in that article is planning to run for Secretary of State of Arizona so he can steal the vote in 2024.