But let's be clear, the crowd breaking into the Capitol wasn't the entirety of the coup attempt, and even to write that part down as just a disorganised mob is incorrect.

What was going on is better understood as an autogolpe -- a self-coup. It had several prongs -- violent, parliamentary (in the congressional sense of the word) and judicial. So, fake electors, lawsuits, attempt to persuade Pence not to count, interfering with results in several states, and the physical insurrection.

The aim was to create a scenario where the handover just didn't happen, through all these interlocking parts.

But the crowd could only ever have created the circumstances that delayed certification (and might have pulled that off, had Pence got in the car).

It was much more co-ordinated than we have yet seen documented in courts, but that time is coming.