I've already seen a few stories that tend to confirm the suspicion that the Trump campaign bankrolled the January 6 event.
On the general question of the popular base of Trump . . . . First, look at an map of the election results at the county level. There are many states where the cities clearly go one way and the vast expanse of small towns and rural districts go another. Over much of this area, the core of Trump support are the small town and rural elites. Where I live, where I have worked, where I grew up--communities in the Trumpy heartland--this is an identifiable trend. It is rare to find a progressive-minded or what would historically be a "liberal" thinker among local officeholders, owners of the small businesses, the big landowners (the new ones but especially those who inherited it, along with standing in local affairs it implies), the owners of small factories and the managers, or the professionals. They are disproportionately white, Christian and their attitude to what isn't ranges from disinterested to hostile. Their are marginally more cosmopolitan urban manifestations of their influence, the city professional or boss obsessed with "heritage" and "that old time religion" and, of course, the real God of their Fathers, "the free market." On one level, these are the classically threatened legions of the petty bourgeoisie, mappable at this point in the U.S and viewable on any cable news program. They are well-educated in terms of college degrees, but, when they speak, they do so for "the people." And they usually adopt the appropriate local vernacular. And they see themselves as the "wealth producers" of a community They have retainers, the people who work for them, and there are the usual allotments of plebs that envy and aspire to emulate them. Then there are the adult children who dress like shamans and live in mommy's basement. But they aren't the ones who organize and lead things. If you want to know who was prominent in the January 6 Capitol Riot, just watch the growing list of those being arrested . . . . It's going to provide an interesting sociological portrait of who's been drinking most deeply of the Trump kool aid. Cheers, Mark L. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5686): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5686 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79742243/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
