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In reply to the discussion: I don't think I've heard anyone on the J6 committee ask perhaps the most important question. [View all]H2O Man
(78,155 posts)is a two-part answer to your important question.
Trump & Co were focused 100% on maintaining power. Part of that is simply Trump's sociopathy not allowing him to believe he could be beat. Part is Trump's belief that if one defines their own reality, they can use power to bring it into being. Alomg with this, the number of people requesting pardons after January 6 indicates their motivation was to keep him in power through criminal means. So these are those who thought Trump provided them access to purely political power. This includes the militia groups that are invested in "white power."
The second group, while not actual cult members, are the those of the rabid, right-wing christian conservatives. They recognize Trump as a flawed man who, despite his ignorance, opened a path for their religious views to be inflicted upon society. In the context of federal judges, we see that in all of the legal cases the Trumpets brought, they lost every single one. Indeed, only Clarence of the high court voted to support the Trump cult, and that was to deny the J6 Committee access to Meadow's e-mails, which exposed his wife's role in attempting to overthrow the election results.
The christian right no longer needs Trump, as they have a majority on the USSC, as well as a number of equally disturbed judges on other federal courts. And that is what will allow them to mix their minority beliefs upon the nation, at the state level primarily, but building up to their superstitions about this being a "christian nation." And that is where the questions you so accurately ask will be answered.