Sure, the bulk of the rioters didn’t
mean any harm, exactly… any more than the superspreaders at the Sturgis bike rally last summer
intended to kill themselves & their loved ones. They were just, like,
deeply involved in fun group events with a few thousand of their
closest friends!
… They were mostly older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands — retired or close to it, estranged from their families or otherwise without children — and Trump had, in a surprising way, made their lives richer. The president himself almost always spent the night in his own bed and kept few close friends. But his rallies gave the [Front Row] Joes a reason to travel the country, staying at one another’s homes, sharing hotel rooms and carpooling. Two had married — and later divorced — by Trump’s second year in office.