This article points out that in previous right-wing extremist arrests, a far greater proportion were under thirty-five and were not business owners or white-collar workers.
Unless we suppose that the larger group have mysteriously vanished, this reinforces the idea that the capitol arrestee sample was skewed toward the middle-aged "petty bourgeoisie" (apparently now an acceptable term) by some combination of circumstances TBD, among them perhaps the means, leisure, and autonomy to travel to Washington in the middle of a work-week for a riot and an assumption of privilege that led them to carry good-quality cell phones and high-end video equipment and still cameras and record their high-jinks and those of their "boys" in celebration of their presumptive immunity from contradiction--which may well prove to be a reality. The "different profile" IMO does not necessarily suggest a new overall composition of right-wing extremism, but perhaps only the skewing of the profile by selection criteria inherent in the circumstances of the event and the criteria for arrest (those criteria still TBD, since AFAIK nobody in a position to know has actually analyzed them). Even so, per the article, a decided majority of the Capitol Hill gang (60%) were not "petty bourgeois" over 40 and a much greater percentage of previous rightwing arrestees were also not PB. The results taken as a whole in the bigger picture suggest PB leadership of this event and prominence among other elements of the Trump coalition, but do not really support the assertion that Trumpism has little or no support among the working classes or that Capitol Hill marks a new turn to the PB. It seems, on the contrary, to suggest that WC support--and youth support--for the Trump ideology is both widespread and massive. Presumably those "others" who tended to be arrested previously are still with us and as rabid as ever. No comparable analysis has been taken AFAIK of the support profile for left positions, including the rapidly fading penumbra of possibly class-struggle-related, as opposed to directly racism-related manifestations surrounding BLM. Of course analysis of arrest records hardly equals scientific polling, which is itself notoriously--even comically--fallible I think that in fact "we" do not at present know who is where politically in this country or how that may be changing It seems likeliest to me that nothing much will happen in the long run to the two hundred or so convenient as-it-were "usual suspects" who have been rounded up, and that this victory for them--together with Trump's inescapable triumphant victory in the second impeachment trial--may catapult the de facto vindicated "terrorists" into positions of new leadership in the right wing movement. That movement may be gaining cadres. I suppose that this new mini-turn toward explicitly PB rank and file leadership--if it happened--could cause some fracturing along class lines--what? More bosses? More elites? What done happened to mah fraydom ? But the right wing has a long tradition of high-prestige explainers who set you down and tell it like they want to say it is, and this has generally been well received by the rank and file. They love it when Massa condescends to share a chaw with the Jacksonian "gentlemen." George Wallace, the lawyer, was as PB as they come. AFAIK the bigger picture now--except for being probably catastrophic in the long run--is not much clearer now than it was a month ago, although some fascinating details have been added. i wonder what the class profiles of us voter in general is--and of Democrat voters in general. It wouldn't surprise me to find that there are more PBs voting Democrat than Trump, or at least pretty much the same number. Non-voters? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6135): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6135 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80409612/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
