These were not just the Trump loyalists of lore, that economically marginalized, over-elegized white working class of the heartland. No, the crowd that stormed the Capitol was a big tent of whiteness, a cross-section of American society bridging divisions of class, geography and demography. They were doctors and lawyers, florists and real estate agents, business executives, police officers, military veterans, at least one elected official and an Olympic gold medalist. They’d all come to coup for America.
What had drawn together this motley mob, other than race and party? A preposterous lie incubated in a digital-media fantasyland. CONTINUED
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times
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