In the end, Todd is killed by “Trump” in a ploy to frame the other side as murderers, which fails. Burned by a person with no regard for human life, because it was more important to the angry white man for the other side to take a hit, than his own life was.

Trump is exactly that. He represents a giving up on change, and a mask-off on a national scale. If there was any chance of conservatives ever trying to change, adapting to newer times, accepting one another and humanity, listening to science and facts contradicting their opinions, it is given up now. Trump represents that thought. He is a voice for those who can't take no for an answer. Those who project their own hatred onto others and hence assume the worst with everyone. Those who were sick of hearing “economy” and “border control” when they wanted to hear racist lunatics. Those who never wanted people, science, history, and basic human instinct to contradict their narrowed first grade understanding of the world.

The truth is, they always lived among us, and we always gave them the benefit of the doubt, and we always tried. While Trump understood that he can shape what it means being in the center, progressives fought tooth and nail to win over that new center, which increasingly became impossible.

Trump could've lost the election and still defined every waking moment afterwards, possibly through a coup meddled his way to the top anyway. However, that coup didn't need to be on another January 6th as in 2021, it happened every day afterwards. Every time the right to vote was surgically removed from specific demographics, every time literal Jim Crow laws were kept in place, upheld, or brought back to life under a new name. Every time Trump incited stochastic terrorism through Nazi-Speech. Every time that happened, one of his followers stopped caring, ignored their own red line, and continued supporting someone for motives they themselves no longer understand. They learned from their first coup, so they spread out the next one across Biden's entire term, and with Project 2025 now have the legal precedent to do more than January 6th ever promised.