Thread by @PalmerReport

The PowerPoint presentation proves two things:

1) The election overthrow plot was hilariously inept and had zero chance of even coming close to working.

2) It was nonetheless a treason plot involving the uppermost levels of the Trump regime.

These two things can both be true.

Just because someone commits a crime like treason or election fraud in an ineptly stupid way that has zero chance of achieving any of the stated goals, it doesn’t mitigate the crime that was committed. It’s still treason and election fraud.

That said, the whole plot was just so obviously never going to keep Trump in office. Even if they had succeeded in killing Pence, for instance, it still wouldn’t have magically resulted in Trump getting a second term. But a treason plot that’s guaranteed to fail is still treason.

We give Trump and his goons way too much credit, and leverage, when we pretend that their treason plot “almost worked.”

That kind of inaccurate hyperbole that only motivates them to THINK they almost succeeded, and therefore want to try again.

We should all be loudly and repeatedly pointing out that Trump’s impotent treason plot didn’t come within a million miles of having any chance of working, both because that’s the accurate truth, and because it’ll make Trump and his goons realize there’s no point in trying again.

The dumbest thing our side does is when we always insist the bad guys are winning, or almost won, or are going to win no matter what, even when it’s not true.

This kind of defeatist cowering just emboldens Trump world. We have to stop talking like losers. They’re the losers.