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Really they intended land owning men to elect a handful of people to go to the capitol and get together and elect a leader, hopefully respecting the votes of those back home.
So not really oligarchy. Citizens United and Bush v Gore means this system is a joke and the rich and powerful decide who leads, luckily Trump is neither.
If Trump had any influence he could have launched a single successful recount challenge or court case with ANY evidence of fraud or election misconduct. He couldn't, so he relies completely on a fervent cult-like group of followers.
Yeah but he's planning to purge the people that stopped him from winning his challenges.
Came down to Mike Pence. He refused to get into the car with the Secret Service because they were planning to kidnap him. He refused to adjourn the session after the putsch. He said "clean the shit off the walls, turn those machines back on, bring those people back in here, and let's start the transition." Then he stepped over that foolish dead girl and reconvened the session, and obviously if he wasn't going to go along with it neither was the Senate, not in that moment.
Without that, we'd have been fucked. The Joint Chiefs letter was a week later and it voted the certification as grounds to remove Trump from the Whire House on January 20 if he didn't go willingly. He already says he regrets leaving and that he should have had his supporters literally fight the military.
Without that, statehouses would have been demanding to send new slates of electors.
They had a whole plan to seize the Supreme Court and State Department. That was only thwarted because the Capitol Police refused to let the crowd into the mall without metal detector screening, despite Trump's orders.
Next time, Trump isn't going to have a VP who refuses orders. That's kind of the whole thing with fascists and cults.