It's like people forget Trump had an entire first term and a movement all over social media espousing their authoritarian ideals and accelerationist goals.
January 6th happened during his first term and half the country cheered. He had supporters in the government talking about a coup back then.
They literally published their plans in an itinerary. It had bullet points and everything.
And to this day people still support him. That's how you know the "nobody voted for this" line is just hogwash. A third of the country still supports everything he's doing, and they would vote for him again if they could.
No one who voted for Trump this time gets to plead ignorance. Complicity or stupidity, those are the options.
Anyone who still voted for Trump is tacitly in support of the Jan 6th rioters and therefore, essentially, no rule of law, no Constitution, just "what this guy says, goes".
And a majority of voters choose that. That's scary for the upper 50% of the bell curve.
It's also scary for pretty much any other country because whilst the US has its own cultural bias, there's something deeply humanly emotive that's being tapped, and can therefore be tapped in many, many other democratic countries.
It's like people forget Trump had an entire first term and a movement all over social media espousing their authoritarian ideals and accelerationist goals.
January 6th happened during his first term and half the country cheered. He had supporters in the government talking about a coup back then.
They literally published their plans in an itinerary. It had bullet points and everything.
And to this day people still support him. That's how you know the "nobody voted for this" line is just hogwash. A third of the country still supports everything he's doing, and they would vote for him again if they could.
No one who voted for Trump this time gets to plead ignorance. Complicity or stupidity, those are the options.