Comrade Mark wrote: "Of the self-selecting jackasses who did show up, only a fraction assaulted the Capitol. The numbers I've seen are vague--some say "hundreds" an others "thousands."
Of these, the preponderant majority were clueless yahoos -- not the working class Trumpies of legend but mostly threatened and self-entitiled elites of small town and rural America." There were just a few elements missing from the Trump putsch attempt that doomed it to failure: you know, some small details like tanks, troops, fighter planes, and a gunboat or two sailing up the Potomac. Even his own shock forces were, for the most part, quite unimpressive. Real Brown Shirts don’t dillydally around snapping iPhone pics of the gilded hallways and foreboding paintings and they don’t take selfies with cherubic smiling cops (who ought to have been slapping cuffs on them). Trump’s ground troops that broke into congress were a motley mix of neo-Nazis, “patriotic militias,” loons, addicted Fox News watchers, cosplay actors, delusionals, Qanon head cases, conspiracy theorists, undoubtedly some Republican staffers, brandishers of long guns, and a whole lot of very angry, very confused, very brainwashed people who have been convinced that their Fat Jesus was cheated out of an election that he lost by just 7 million votes! In short, those we saw smashing the windows of the Capitol, scaling its walls, hanging off its rafters, rifling through the offices and personal papers of sitting congress members, smashing the television equipment of broadcast reporters, stealing Pelosi’s lectern, and trying -- unsuccessfully -- to burst into a room where dozens of congress members were huddled and trying to take them hostage are, simply, put, America’s misfits and losers. However, f or all of the 20 th Century and the first 20 years of this one, there has always been a hard-right faction lurking on the sidelines. Now that Trump has watered, groomed and pruned them for the last 4 years, this hard-right has gone though a substantive change. They are no longer the two-dimensional aging John Birchers who were basically ultra-patriots with bigoted views. They now constitute a thriving white nationalist movement that we underestimate at our peril. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5476): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5476 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79488065/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
