I've spent years in the pro-2A scene, where NRA leadership was widely known to be as corrupt & self-dealing as the public now sees it is. So why the universal support from gun owners?

LaPierre's pitch was, "Yeah I'm a monster, but I'm a monster who protects you from /them/." https://twitter.com/anthonyLfisher/status/1347207216290476034
This dynamic is behind the push to contrast 1/6 with the summer's riots. "Your city on fire, your neighborhood under siege -- that's what They want for you. Who do you trust to defend you against the crowd that burned cities & spun it as 'mostly peaceful'?"
In a moment like the this, after a summer of rioting & looting, with morgues overflowing & bodies stacking in refrigerator trucks, many will take "strong & wrong" over "weak & right."

Yesterday was a show of strength from the insurgents & of weakness from the establishment.
This is why I think there's much more coming. To use @Chris_arnade's language, front-row kids will look at this photo & see a sore loser's embarrassing tantrum.

But back-row kids will see one of their own doing "king sh*t đź‘‘đź’Ş".
So I think that not only was yesterday's action an unalloyed victory for accelerationist, anti-establishment forces both right and left, but Congress's hasty, pre-dawn retreat from that building just confirms how weak & scared the establishment is. They turned tail & ran.
To get to the reason I quoted that tweet at the top of the thread: there will be no third party for anyone, for the same reason gun owners never had a viable NRA alternative. Because we're all in an open-air prison, and you'll soon join the strongest gang that'll have you.
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