'Greater peril': Experts warn Jan. 6 was just a 'rehearsal' for what Trump has planned

January 6 was just a “rehearsal” for what Donald Trump has planned for his next administration, two experts warned Tuesday.

And they sounded the alarm that the country is now in much worse shape to survive Trump than it was three years ago.

“Our democracy is more fragile now than it was then,” states the article in The Bulwark written Jeffrey Tulis, a government professor at the University of Texas, and the website’s Editor-at -Large William Kristol.

“Three years of normalizing January 6th by the likely Republican nominee has created an unprecedentedly dangerous situation.”

They went on, "This is why we are in important ways in greater peril in January 2024 than we were in January 2021."

Since January 2021, many of the Republicans who broke with Trump and were willing to blame him for the insurrection have gone, been marginalized or have been taken back into the MAGA fold, the writers state.

“If he were returned to the White House, he would have only sycophants around him and none of the so-called “adults in the room” who, however ineffectually, tried in his first term to check his worse impulses,” they wrote.

“The pro-insurrectionists, joined by anti-anti-insurrectionists, are in control of the Republican Party. And the forces marshaled behind Donald Trump to subvert and overthrow important features of our constitutional democracy are stronger than they were in January 2021 — or for that matter in January 2017.”

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And they wrote that Trump has been open about the authoritarian and vengeful agenda he intends to fulfill — which he is likely to be able to achieve now that opposition has been quelled.

‘[He] would tilt the federal government radically toward lawlessness, and would seriously, perhaps critically, wound our constitutional democracy,” they warned.

“January 6th, it turns out, was a rehearsal for the true upheaval, the far deeper insurrection, that Trump now intends to lead if re-elected. January 6th was prologue. The election year of 2024 will be the decisive drama on the main stage, and its outcome is very much in doubt.”