Trump didn't think the 6th insurgents would succeed. He had clearly been advised that the reaction to it might allow him to institute marshal law, and there was a draft executive order floating around that would have seen him use that situation to try to delay things further.
I think a lot of people fail to understand how many different ways there are to make order out of chaos, and how in extreme chaos a lot of people will accept any kind of order.
Trump didn't think the 6th insurgents would succeed. He had clearly been advised that the reaction to it might allow him to institute marshal law, and there was a draft executive order floating around that would have seen him use that situation to try to delay things further.
I think a lot of people fail to understand how many different ways there are to make order out of chaos, and how in extreme chaos a lot of people will accept any kind of order.