I went and read the article to form my own opinion. It's a bad article. At no point does the framing consider that correlation is not causation: the stormers were mainly in financial trouble because their businesses cheated on taxes, which is often a highly ideological decision. https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1359491876060090373

If we really want to understand white right wing movements, we have to look at them from a complicated and multifactorial perspective that includes an interplay between material economic issues, personal psychology and ideology. Journalists are often not equipped to do this...

... because even if they understand and want to explore the issues, the media they work for might be uncomfortable expressing those issues and pissing off a bunch of white readers who don't like what they see in the mirror being held up.

Cheating on your taxes is held up as a positive virtue in conservatism. Trump is a personal emblem of this, but it's all over. They believe the state should be funded when it comes to punishment (cops, prisons, armies) but that the state also wastes money on "welfare queens"...

... so cheating on your taxes is an implicit white racial domination strategy to "starve the beast" (if you don't believe me go Google "starve the beast" and read what comes up). It doesn't matter if this strategy works or not, it matters that it's culturally valid for them.

I'm actually all for reading deep anthropological dives into the Capitol stormers but maybe white people shouldn't be trusted with writing them.