Here we are almost 18 months after January 6, with lots of rioters still being sweated in jail, and we are still being promised that Real Soon Now the secret conspiracy will finally be cracked and All Shall Be Revealed.

Isn’t it more likely that January 6 was what it always looked like: less of a conspiracy than a disorganized fiasco without much of a plan? All through 2020, while the Left rioted over and over, the Right behaved well. So Trump pressed his luck one time too many, hoping that his Norman Vincent Peale Power of Positive Thinking would somehow come through for him again, but this time some of his supporters got overexcited?

iSteve commenter JR Ewing writes:

It’s going to “all be revealed,” all right, here in a few more weeks when the house introduces a resolution to declare Trump and whoever else they can tie to Jan 6 as “insurrectionists” and therefore bar them from eligibility to hold office under the 14th amendment… and Sinema and Manchin show their party loyalty by nuking the filibuster to get it through the senate. Or even worse, enough “principled conservatives” like Romney and Sasse vote for it themselves. And it doesn’t even need to pass the senate, some states can and will just decide for themselves, preferably after the primary.

It ultimately won’t work but by the time the courts sort it out and Trump has been removed from the ballot in several swing states, the 2024 election will be over and the question will be moot, just like the legal challenges surrounding the 2020 election. (“Yes this was illegal but it’s too late to do anything about it now!”)

There is a reason they’ve been misusing this very specific term [“insurrection”] to describe a small disorganized riot that lasted all of three hours.

The 2022 midterms might put a damper on this scheme and force them to do it sooner than they would like, but if the Dems can figure out a way to squeak by and keep control of congress, this will all go down around mid-2023 I’m guessing.

THAT’S your conspiracy theory right there.

From the 14th Amendment:

Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.