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If you've been watching the Jan 6 hearings, the entire argument is that none of this was sophisticated. It was brazen and self-serving and utterly devoid of higher purpose, it was pure vainglorious self-dealing. No Democrats need to be convinced on this. It would be a waste of effort to do so. The effort has been all about the Republicans, and they way they're painting up Trump is that he does not believe in duty.

The liberals are aghast that John Bolton would admit to plotting coups because polite people don't talk about overthrowing governments. Conservatives? The only government that matters is ours. And the entire discussion has been about how Trump doesn't care about anyone but Trump, didn't act for anyone but Trump, has no one's interests at heart but Trump's, and has been playing everyone like a fiddle so that we all do what Trump wants, rather than what's good for the country.