If there has been one theme in my life it’s been telling anyone who would listen that for the last four years Trump has been building an army. You could see it in all the militarized pick up trucks with the MAGA flags, the beard bros with the scowls. He was giving purpose..

To a certain subset of the white American male. I went to HS with these kind of dudes. They loved Trump and still do in my suburb of NYC. He was giving them back the glory days of being bullies and tough guys. He fed their powerlessness with anger. The date-rapey jocks...

held their prom at the US Capitol, not talking ‘no’ for an answer, forcing themselves upon democracy and terrorizing anyone they didn’t see as fitting in with their toxic image of what it means to be an American. We need to understand this before we can move on.