Likewise, I'm also not a Trump fan and also not American (I'm British), but the American centre-left perspective on the Jan 6 riots is utterly ridiculous. It's

Likewise, I'm also not a Trump fan and also not American (I'm British), but the American centre-left perspective on the Jan 6 riots is utterly ridiculous. It's yet more predictable histrionics from the bored suburban housewives who - deeply insultingly - arrogate to call themselves the #Resistance, and other such privileged bollocks. There is no evidence whatever that it was an effort to take over the country - much less that Trump, or anyone beyond possibly a couple of wingnut far-right House reps, conspired to bring it about. It was some angry hicks going on a rumpus. As a side note, it's disturbing to see that 'the paranoid style in American politics' now extends to the (centre-centre-)Left as well as the Right. First it was the ludicrous fact-free conspiracism about Russia conniving to install Trump as President; now it's the (transitively contradictory) theory that Trump, unable to cheat the election, tried to bring about a coup - not via the enormous tools at his disposal as President, but by supposedly encouraging some morons in fancy dress to storm the Capitol building and then aimlessly wander around stealing petty artefacts. I suppose the paranoid style is simply a response by the dispossessed - but this is the first time that the rich and comfortable suburban centre has experienced being dispossessed.