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Insurrections and rebellions against the Constitution of the United States — the kinds of attacks on the Constitution by former officers that disqualify them under Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment — are of two main kinds:
the first involve attempts to rend the constitutional fabric of the Union horizontally, through secession (as in the 1860s, in the lead up to Fort Sumter);
the second involve attempts to rend the constitutional fabric of the Union vertically, by rejecting the Constitution’s architecture of quadrennial succession, with each presidential term lasting exactly 4 years (as with Trump’s 2016-20 term in office), so
what Trump tried to do by holding onto the presidency by any means possible, from fake electoral slates to pressuring Pence to reject lawfully certified slates to fomenting violence on Jan 6, amounted to
a classic case of a failed coup against the Constitution itself and not just an attempt to overthrow an agency of the government; on the contrary,
Trump sought to seize the government for himself rather than to dismantle it, a distinction without a difference when it comes to the text and purpose of the Disqualification Clause of the
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the clause designed to prevent treacherous oath-takers, who commit “moral perjury” when they swear to preserve, protect, and defend or support
our most fundamental law, from ever again having an opportunity to take down the structure of our constitutional democracy and the republic it sustains
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