Had Trump done what you have suggested here, it could have been easily construed as a coup, the real kind.
The Joint Chiefs had publicly announced 6 months prior during BLM riots that if Trump would issue such an order to the Sec. Def., the generals and staff officers of the COCOM wouldn't execute it. And that was not two weeks before investiture of the new president.
If he'd tried it, that would be a very short lived coup of the real kind.
I don't disagree with you. I merely wanted to add that whatever anybody is saying left or right, it probably wouldn't have worked had he tried an actual coup. From a rational POV I don't really understand all the brouhaha.
Compared to a lot of other situations elsewhere, Jan 6th was a minor spectacle, nothing serious (see Yellow Vests protests in France).
But instead, Trump gave us hours of inaction. Precious hours wasted during the time we needed leadership most.
I'm not planning on voting such an indecisive man into office.
You know, long after Pence authorized the National Guard units and activated them?
Shaky Trump had his chance to prove he was a decisive leader back then. He failed the test in the most spectacular fashion.