This article hit on a few things that isn’t acknowledged enough.
- Even relatively comfortable and affluent people often live with a level of economic precarity.
- professional "white collar" jobs are paying less and less... https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/economy-inequality-precarity-oligarchy/

- Austerity's decimation of the social safety net harms everybody, not just low income folks.
- this all increases social alienation which can lead to radicalization.
Where this misses the mark is the generalization of the precariat that took part in the insurrection as poor.

I am sure there were a lot of low income people involved, but many of the most notable people arrested have been former military, CEOs, real estate agents. They are affluent and privileged people. Like, Marjorie Taylor Green reportedly has a home worth over a million dollars.

This extends to the GameStop uprising. The dude behind the DeepFuckingValue account lives in the next town over from me. He’s a financial advisor and he owns a $650k house. He is not low income. But how precarious, especially in the era of covid, is that level of affluence?

I think it’s an important aspect of understanding this moment of rising American fascism. To an extent, it seems as though it’s an uprising of the 9% against both the top 1% and the bottom 90%. And though it is expressed in economic terms, race is fundamentally tied to this.

White middle class wealth creation via suburbs is historically based on devaluing Black lives & excluding Black participation. Even where individuals don’t think of property values in this way, the system still works this way. RE agents still discriminate against Black families.

Suburbanization was, in effect, the capital class mobilizing a deethnicized White middle class to act as a buffer class against the largely Black and immigrant working class. The Fordist compromise was the capital class limiting its antagonism directed at the middle class.

But more years have now passed since the breakdown of the Fordist compromise than it really was in effect for, and while austerity doesn’t hit everyone equally it hits everyone eventually.

The real threat to property values is climate change, not other humans living near you or having 4 homes per acre instead of 1. But the capital class, which has exponentially grown its wealth largely through land and other speculation, can only offer scarcity and austerity.

From this view, Trump's immigration policy as a response to climate change has a logic. The capital class is hellbent on destroying the world creating a Hobbesian hellscape. Add to the mix other cultural factors like Christian nationalism, white supremacy and here we are.

But of course the capital class can’t help itself and they’ve been eroding the power of their buffer class for the last half century, and they’ve only been more brazen during COVID. It’s starting to catch up to them. The conservative anger at the 1% is very real.

But this anger doesn’t exist in opposition to the anger towards the more diverse and pluralistic working class; these two angers are symbiotic. Rhetoric against the capital class veers quickly into anti-Semitism.

Indeed, in this rhetoric calling something "socialism" is more or less just shorthand for saying "alliance of Jewish bankers and Black people". It’s an expression of a two-front class war the White petit bourgeoisie sees themselves facing.

This is mostly a hypothesis. I haven’t investigated the underlying data but it’s something I’m thinking about looking into, especially if it’s something I can map.