Blake Fleetwood August 22, 2023 READ
The root causes of the January 6 Capitol breaching are much deeper than Trump’s reckless incitements.To paraphrase Billy Joel, Trump “didn’t start the fire.” His ascendancy is a symptom of a free floating anger that has been smoldering for decades, long before Trump even appeared on the political landscape. And this outrage flares up spontaneously, like the wildfires in Hawaii, and morphs from issue to issue without warning.