What's so astonishing about this is that it's not responding to any real grievances. No, the election wasn't stolen. No, Dems aren't Marxists — or pedophiles. No, BLM didn't go on a deadly rampage (but rightists did). And many of these people have fairly comfortable lives 1/ https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1348328968081072133

And we're not like Mussolini's Italy or Weimar Germany, bitter over a catastrophic war and, in Germany, a catastrophic depression (no, it wasn't the hyperinflation that did it — it was the gold standard) 2/

The best guess is that it's about race — about white people infuriated by growing diversity. And maybe the GOP's cynical cultivation of racial hostility in the service of plutocracy encouraged it 3/

But still awesome to see democracy under violent siege based on almost nothing 4/

Henry Farrell — who is an actual political scientist — says that it's largely about the GOP's cynical breaching of norms 5/ https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1348283683292196864

He continues 6/ https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1348283685016113152

Or maybe Pink Floyd said it better: The rusty wire / That holds the cork / That keeps the anger in / Gives way 7/