Weimar fell in stages. Better said, was directed to fall. The escalation at the Capitol was expected on this side of the Atlantic as a necessity to a reframing or narratives for 2024. Frankly, it scares us.

That said, we’re perhaps more scared by the general uninformed state of the public debate on this escalation. It’s as if nobody has any idea how these things work, and no idea of why it works.

Perhaps the most disconcerting part of it is that all the focus seems to be on Trump. Yes he is a chaos actor, but he is also a lever, and there is a machine behind it. It seems the American Fourth Estate has zero idea, in spite of tons of FBI data and research publications on it