Right wingers are already reframing the event with whataboutism on BLM and Antifa and are screaming 1984 at Trump being censored on social media. They see it as a massive victory while libs cry over institutions being wrecked or whatever and fawn over Pence and McConnell for not supporting an insurrection that would fuck up a system they benefit from. My own lib friends are convinced that it was only due to lack of police that it got that far but refuse to acknowledge that cops were probably helping them. Every time I say that I get called an alarmist but fuck it, this is probably gonna be the norm from now on.
Problem for them is, Trump really isn't concerned about any of this.
He wants his ego stroked and to feel adored. When he saw the big crowd yesterday, that was enough to satisfy him. It made him feel loved and as another poster said yesterday, he probably got the most sleep he has had in months as a result of it. Trump is a moron more worried about his ego than anything else. If he truly wanted it yesterday, he could've seized power and started a full civil war.
My guess is that the QAnon people that just got elected to Congress are going to stick around and eventually Trump's base is going to morph into something else. These people were already crazy before Trump came around. He just absorbed the Tea Party, conspiracy fringe and far right base all under the same banner. They're going to hang around and worship him until the next fascist comes and swoops up that base. I don't think it will be Tom Cotton, Crenshaw or any elected officials. It'll likely be someone coming out of nowhere. Probably a Silicon Valley tech billionaire.
elon..? but seriously which others ones seem to be taking a zigzaging path towards neo-fascism?
It'll have to be someone charismatic. Trump at least has the type of Charisma a WWE heel has. It's not a lot, but it's more than most people can muster.