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I think that's a bit misleading, TBH. The attack was fairly well planned, and far from just a bunch of hillbillies. Yeah, they were a part of it, and part of the plan, but summarizing them as the brains behind the coup attempt is undercutting the risk of it being tried again.
Which just furthers op's main point, really. I mean it was fairly well planned in a fairly overt fashion, why weren't they prepared?
Your mistake is thinking that they wanted to stop it.
There was never any actual coup attempt or chance of overthrowing the government. It was a bunch of idiots thinking storming a building would be a good “yeah we’ll show them!”. There was no plan on how exactly they were going to overturn the election, no plan to hold all the government hostage and form their own government.
The fbi loved it because they can use it as more ammo to extend their powers and exert their existing powers on people to scare them into submission.
Definitely wasn't saying they were the brains. But the message was communicated to them via Facebook. They actively participated in the conspiracy, which took place on Facebook. My point is, the data was there, and it wasn't acted upon for some reason.