Safe to say, the Donald Trump
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump> supporters who
ransacked the U.S. Capitol <https://www.huffpost.com/topic/us-capitol>
last week weren’t short on cash or propelled by severe economic anxiety.
The insurrectionists came to Washington by plane. They stayed in Airbnbs
<https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/d-c-airbnb-host-realized-his-guests-were-captiol-rioters.html>and
at the Embassy Suites. They wore costumes and carried weapons and
iPhones. Some were cops. There weredoctors, lawyers, a Chicago real
estate broker
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-riots-people-fired-jobs-trnd/index.html>,
teachers
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-riots-people-fired-jobs-trnd/index.html>
― even a school therapist
<https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1349781522614804480>. A CEO
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/ceo-arrested-at-u-s-capitol-riots-placed-on-leave?sref=sGsy0HYh>.
Sure, some of them could’ve been impoverished former coal miners, as so
many pundits have described a certain sect of Trump voters. But these
people weren’t raging over the decline of the carbon-based economy. This
was a riot about race and power. If there was economic anxiety, it was
spurred by the rioters’ false notion that their place in the world is
under threat.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-core-support-never-about-economy_n_6000b785c5b62c0057bb6dfc?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
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