There’s an awkward truth being unearthed about the most extreme participants in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. They aren’t the down-and-out, unemployed, rural, and “forgotten” sector of our society many often assume. In a report authored by Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, with the help of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), which examined the court records of 377 participants who were arrested, the rioters were by and large found to be white (95%) and male (85%)—and that’s no surprise. More surprising is the fact that they came not from deeply red, Trump-heavy counties but rather from relatively affluent, middle-class ones, the majority of which Biden actually comfortably won.
Essentially these guys are "Bill the Butcher" from Gangs of New York. Possessing wealth and power, but gaudy, violent, manipulative and incensed by "foreign invasion."
The American Party was originally organized as a secret society, with bylaws that obliged people to respond to queries about their membership with the phrase: I know nothing. Not surprisingly, that admission was a propaganda gift to their opponents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
Thanks for this excellent article! Another related demographic---the "middle class" or as Marx called them the petit bourgeoisie, small business people, independent professionals and also cops made up a big proportion of the rioters if not an absolute majority. They are not the very poor , but feel downward economic pressure and fear being pushed into the working class. This demographic is similar to that of the Nazis etc. in the 30s
Essentially these guys are "Bill the Butcher" from Gangs of New York. Possessing wealth and power, but gaudy, violent, manipulative and incensed by "foreign invasion."
It's all about tribalism, isn't it? Literally all of it.
The American Party was originally organized as a secret society, with bylaws that obliged people to respond to queries about their membership with the phrase: I know nothing. Not surprisingly, that admission was a propaganda gift to their opponents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
Thanks for this excellent article! Another related demographic---the "middle class" or as Marx called them the petit bourgeoisie, small business people, independent professionals and also cops made up a big proportion of the rioters if not an absolute majority. They are not the very poor , but feel downward economic pressure and fear being pushed into the working class. This demographic is similar to that of the Nazis etc. in the 30s
Wow. I would not have imagined this.