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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a great read on WaPo right now about the motivations of the insurrectionists: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/capitol-riot-defense-trump-election/2021/07/19/e14f665e-d812-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html

I want to display the top comment to that article. It really says it all, IMHO, about Trump supporters. There is an undertone of violence to all of their political demands:

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My family back in KS and NE are mostly Trump supporters.

Let's make something very clear.

Most of them voted for Trump precisely BECAUSE they have long fantasized about butchering American citizens they dislike.

That is what they mean when they say "Make America Great Again."

My uncles and many of my cousins have always talked about how much they they would love to see gays, feminists, "college boys," and some nebulously defined group of "elites" put to the sword.

And they are EXACTLY like most of the people you see in a Trump rally.

Indeed, virtually all of them have attended multiple Trump rallies.

When Trump supporters wear Confederate emblems on their hats and shirts they aren't saying "this is our heritage."

Rather they are saying "the South should have won and NYC and Philadelphia should have been burned."

When they scream "Lock her up!" they mean "Kill her."

And when they chant "Send them back!" they aren't talking about Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, AOC, or Rashida Tlaib.

They are talking about any person who makes things with math or science, any person who doesn't think "let's kill all all the gays," any person who doesn't drive an F150, and any person who doesn't derive half their caloric intake from gravy and Mountain Dew.

They are talking about the terminal annihilation of the majority of Americans who, in their view, just aren't sufficiently into Duck Dynasty and stonewashed Lee's.

They are talking about you.

Make no mistake, they would kill most Americans to give birth to a totalitarian dictatoriship so long as that dictator craps in a gold bucket with an eagle on it and pretends to like eating at Hardee's.

And their efforts to get you to think that 1/6 either didn't happen or that it wasn't a big deal is merely their effort to get you to stop paying attention as they mobilize their base to deploy terminal violence.
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And he follows up with:

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Actually, many of them ARE fine people.

A few of them (my uncle and some of my cousins mentioned above) are truly horrible but most of them are terrified of change.

They live in relatively small towns and truly believe in their hearts that the goal of "the culture" is to burn their churches and to make them go to PC reeducation camps.

While this is not true I can understand WHY they think this since our modern political discourse cleaves to maximalist positions.

As I said, some truly are deplorable people, but the advent of a nationalized politics and social media has allowed "politics" to be presented as universal and all-consuming.

And for many people the only thing that compels them is terror and rage.

This is probably true for lots of people from different political backgrounds, but in the hands of authoritarian populists like Trump and his hardcore GOP supporters it is truly destructive.[/i][/quote]

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Fine people afraid of change - being manipulated into being horrible people by vicious, cynical fearmongering propaganda being pushed by the right wing.   Nobody is trying to burn their churches or send them to re-education camps.  They need a reality check.  They need reassurance.  We are not at threat of becoming communist or much of anything else that they are so afraid of.[/quote]

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