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« on: June 30, 2022, 11:59:35 AM »

I actually appreciate stories like this because it shines a light on the fact that anybody is capable of being an unstable lunatic. Trump cultists are not actually always "blue collar." That should actually make us even more terrified when they are in occupations like this.

The stereotype of Trump supporters as "poor" or "rural" or "hillbillies living in trailers in the mountains of Appalachia" is one of the most irritating tropes Online Democrats resort to. They don't even understand who their opposition is.

Many of the capitol rioters were doxxed in the days and weeks following the incident. There were plenty of doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, business owners, and corporate managers. They had the time and money to fly to DC (some even flew on private jets).

And historically speaking, reactionary movements are nearly always a middle-to-upper-middle-class phenomenon. That's the segment of society that has enough people in it to fuel "popular" movements ("real" elites and aristocrats are so few in number that if they all got together to protest, it wouldn't even fill a stadium). They are economically comfortable enough that they can spend time and money on political pursuits, but feel squeezed by the elites above them (who often look down their noses at them for being new money or too uncouth) and the proles below them (who they resent and see as living off government largesse at their expense).
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