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Very provisional thoughts on the day (indebted to some of you), if you have the patience to read something longer from me.
I said this back in summer after watching some early videos in NYC, (and I'm not saying this was the main characteristic of the Floyd uprising), but if one thing surprised me this year, it is the utter willingness of people in this country to openly fight police.
I recommend this by @_grendan as a counter-point to my own provisional thoughts. I try to weigh this seriously and will be discussing later today with @joelowndes and @DanielDenvir. I think it will be important to get this analysis right. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/proud-boys-capitol/
Also @leninology, who sees these events as experiments and dress-rehearsals, an important first-take that provoked some of my thinking: https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-it-still-if-45896691
Closer to my views, and also thinking about the future of the right, Mike Davis focuses on the institutional parties, (and as @tedfertik argues in a longer thread responding to me) as where the main action will occur: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill
In this fantastic thread @dialash suggests that we should be as concerned about heightened state repression as we are about the networks linking the far right and security agencies: https://twitter.com/dialash/status/1347244505100132355
In piece before Trump entered office I wondered about skepticism/distaste of national security elites toward Trump, and whether he would master them. He did not. I think a stronger left might have shifted their sympathies in a dangerous direction and that poses a genuine dilemma.
