how close to what? lets say the guys storming the capitol actually manage to do whatever they wanted to do there, then what? democracy is not a king of the hill game, they'd just be sieged out by the police/military if it came to it.
The only thing you ancestors showed us is that people like scapegoats when their economy is down the gutter, demoralized and in an era where war and overt systematic violence against ethnic minorities isn't uncommon.
> they'd just be sieged out by the police/military if it came to it
You really think that the police, especially federal police, would have disobeyed a direct request from the President asking them to stand down? There were only two completely random things that prevented an utter disaster at Jan 6th: Eugene Goodman, the brave cop redirecting the mob away just mere minutes after the Senate chamber was sealed [1], likely saving the Senators' lives, and Bobby Engel from the Secret Service [2], who reportedly resisted physical violence by the President himself and did not drive him to the Capitol as requested.
Had Trump been at the Capitol, I have absolutely zero doubt he would have crowned himself President that day - and that neither the Republican leadership nor the courts would have objected to this.
The capitol police doesn't report to the president. They absolutely would have laid siege to the place at the orders of their boss, Nancy Pelosi.
Also, you should check your sources (or rather, your sources' sources): there's a lot of fake news out about 1/6, a lot of it from "reliable" sources. The second story there is single-sourced from someone who wasn't in Trump's car whose story was disproven by someone who was actually in the car. The same outlets have been repeating the lie that one of the Trumpkins killed a capitol police officer with a fire extinguisher.
What makes you think that republican leadership and the courts(!!!!) wouldn't have objected to it? especially when republican leadership themselves were against it, to the point where the main target it seems of the mob was Mike Pence of all people.
"You really think that the police, especially federal police, would have disobeyed a direct request from the President asking them to stand down?"
This takes me back to my German friends confidently predicting that the election of George W. Bush was the dawn of Nazi America. No, George W. Bush isn't going to roll the army out of Iraq and conquer the entire Middle East. No, Trump isn't going to disband the free press with the assent of Congress. No, the Capital Police, who work for Congress, are not going to stand down and let rioters run rampant, and no, neither Republican leadership (which wasn't in charge of Congress in any case) nor the courts are going to let anyone crown himself president.
All of those are actual predictions I heard from Germans. Trump did crown himself president, with the result any American would have predicted: he was derided and ignored by the majority of the country, and the location wouldn't have mattered at all to that.
I totally get given your country's history why this stuff comes up. But some of it is very, very alien to an American cultural consciousness. It turns out countries differ from one another.
It's worth reading about the relationship between Trump and his generals to understand the attitude that the American military takes, and is expected and required by their oath to take, toward the president.
I am definitely not saying that fascism can't happen here. I'm saying that if it does it won't look like anything predictable from German history because there are vastly different cultural norms to bulldoze.
