Weak Coup

It wasn't that long ago my inbox was filled with dire warnings of a Trump coup, perhaps an armed uprising and even civil war. I was advised to form a resistance committee prepared for street fighting. These romantic imaginings had the forces for Good standing firm against the Brownshirt hordes. Besides the obvious question of fight for what? Defend capitalist "democracy" and "the rule of law"? Defend the Democratic Party victor Joe Biden with my life? (Don't think so) we have to ask: doesn't this fear of a fascist takeover spring from the same irrational place as Q Anon? Is the divorce from reality now universal? Those wild speculations were built on imagining Trump forces as an exponentially magnified version of the guys with flak vests and "assualt-style" weapons that showed up to "protect" rallies in various towns around the country. Some were "mobilized" here in Montana, where they managed to get their pictures on the front page of newspapers and local tv blurbs. No doubt they were pumped up about the opportunity to display their toys and virility and to be part of a patriotic brotherhood of sorts. To have a mission, to find some meaning in a chaotic world. But as Trump threw his tantrum these guys went with the vote count. I imagine their militia networks were saying "stand by", waiting for exactly the kind of provocation certain Lefties were hoping to organize (but thankfully failed). So instead of potentially violent confrontation, we saw Trump lawyers jump into action and the whole "uprising" fizzle spectacularly. Of course. I suspect those who identify as Antifa are bummed, but it was so predictable that I am now wondering: are the folks who sent the emails evaluating and analyzing their action?