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How is a mob storming the legislature at the direction of a politician not a coup attempt?


> How is a mob storming the legislature at the direction of a politician not a coup attempt?

Especially when the specific goal is to use threats of violence to induce officials to overturn the election in which the inciting politician was defeated.

This is an act of terrorism meant to effect an auto-coup.




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