FiveThirtyEight has a thought-provoking article claiming that Trump supporters aren’t necessarily in it for Trump himself; rather, they’re in it because Trump stands for the thing that’s most important to them - white racial dominance. There have been threads of this expressed here, w/r/t Trump-supporting Congresscritters and Senators not necessarily loving Trump himself, but tolerating him because he helps the Republican party keep their hold on power. This goes into the racial aspects of that line of thinking, and produces what we saw on Wednesday - a mob led by Proud Boys with Confederate flags and wearing 6MWNE shirts.