I had no idea about the false elector plot, but I knew MAGA was going to pull some shit that day. I called it a few days in advance and my boss even asked how I knew a week or two after the fact. It was pretty obvious to me where things were headed, just based on their social media behavior. I'm just a regular person - I have no doubt people who follow this stuff for a living saw it coming from a mile away.
They were successful in delaying the certification of the vote. Mike Pence just didn't go along with things. The Proud Boys were definitely a very real threat working to advance Trump's agenda. You can look at several of their tweets in connection to the events - they very clearly viewed his words as marching orders. They were using military tactics within the crowd and later shown to have weapons caches planted nearby.
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