The chaos on January 6th could have been avoided if the judiciary at the state levels had done their legal duty and allowed a fair presentation of the evidence of voting irregularities in multiple states.
Instead, they held that the judiciary should not get involved in political disputes as they did in Florida in the Bush/Gore election. The left continues to believe the Supreme Court stole the election for Bush by rejecting the Florida Supreme Court intervention in the process.
This precedent gave judges the cover to rule that plaintiffs in voting disputes don’t have “standing” unless they are the actual injured candidate. They kicked the can down the road to Jan 6th.
The entirely legal effort on Jan 6th was not to “overturn” the election but to force the state legislatures in disputed states to do what the courts refused to do and look at the evidence of voting irregularities. Trump’s people believed if this were presented honestly, the states would hopefully do their duty to decide the election by democratic means when they saw that the vote-counting process was illegal and not certifiable by the SoSs of their state. This was a previously defined constitutional backstop to prevent grossly corrupted popular elections.
What the gaslighting left will never understand is that many people know the truth and only want to have their day in court before a fair jury. The latent sense of injustice and mistrust has lingered since 2020 and will continue until the disinfectant of sunlight is applied to this sad episode in America’s history.
“previously defined constitutional backstop”
That backstop had to be exercised by mid-December. By January 6th, it was too late. By December 15th, I lost all hope with respect to Trump and the election.