I don’t know that all is lost, but it looks grim at this moment. It takes time to devise solutions and to coordinate. It takes people desperate enough with nothing to lose, or fired up enough with some sort of powerful idea to decide it’s time to fight. I think yesterday was a waste of time and energy for the “good guys,” no matter what the reality behind it may have been. The problem with putting your faith in any person, especially a politician and a shady businessman, is that at the end of it all, he might betray you, and probably will. This was why the most effective leaders were military men in one shape or another. Alexander, Napoleon, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, even Hitler all understood the weight of war and that once committed it must be seen through to the bitter end. Trump wasn’t the man for this, even if he was on “our” side, as evidenced by his failure to commit to fighting, knowing that war is messy. He’s a populist pragmatist who cares more about his long term holdings than his countrymen if it means making the tough decisions. So, when the tough decision - insurrection act or martial law - became necessary, he blinked. He lost. Because he didn’t have it in him to commit, if he was, in fact, ever really on “our side.” Edit: All of my wry comments from yesterday about the “storming” of the Capitol building aside, the act itself, if genuine, was a waste of time unless the intention was to take justice into their own hands, even if that meant holding a mock trial on the floor of the house and charging the government agents of treason with the “defendants” being “in absentia.”