president came as trump mobilized his supporters behind the big lie, a mass delusion so powerful it inspired a terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol. quote, milley saw trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing left to lose. he saw parallels between trump s rhetoric of election fraud and adolf hitler s insistence to his followers that the nuremberg valleys, that he was both a victim and their savior. this is a reichstag moment, he told aides, the gospel of the fuhrer. that s how serious it was in january, that donald trump posed such a threat to this country at that particular moment, that the top brass in the american military not only recognized, thankfully, but actually had to take steps to prevent a coup. yet despite the gravity of that news, the republican party continues to pledge loyalty to the former president and coup instigator. just today house majority leader kevin mccarthy paid a house call