"..I don't want to be callous, but this is precisely the sort of thing that happens when you not only allow dangerous fascists to simply skate away from a coup attempt, but also then allow them to legitimate nazi conspiracy theories every single day by treating them as politics. There's a reason many countries tried to criminalize nazi ideologies after World War II, and "beating them at the ballot box" isn't really good enough when they're out there telling unhinged reactionaries, day after day, that they're part of some vast civil war against a cabal of baby brain-juice drinking Satanists trying to replace them with Mexican migrants because of "The Jews." And I'm sorry if stating it harshly like that offends your sensibilities, but that is the root of the conspiracy driving Trumpism and its many copycat movements in the West.
The son reportedly raged about the president, “far-left woke mobs” and the LGBTQ+ community in a "gruesome and disturbing" online video.
"In the footage, which has now been removed from the platform, the son reportedly showed his father’s severed head, claimed his father was a longtime federal employee who “is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country” and ranted about President Joe Biden, “far-left woke mobs” and the LGBTQ community."
I don't care how uncomfortable arresting coup plotters and half of Congress would have been, you are going to learn eventually that this WAS the path of least resistance, because now it's totally normal to believe this shit; after all "my Congressman says it's true." Like I've said a billion times - pretend is not a strategy, arrest fascists. .."