re: #5 Patricia Kayden

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Meanwhile, most folks by now have come to understand that the same toxic ideology that motivated Roof to massacre a church congregation and sends armed yahoos to the border also motivated thousands of white folks with “economic anxiety” to storm the Capital Building.

Of course, the reason why they want to dismiss 1/6 is because the people who were bashing in doors, smearing shit on the walls, and (oh yeah) trying to assassinate elected officials look too similar to themselves for comfort. They want to put the face of a drugged out loser or beered-up redneck assholes on the movement because that allows them to continue telling themselves that their well-dressed neighbor screaming about “STOLEN ELECTIONS!!!” is a good guy who’s just “misinformed.”