Mob Constitutionalism: The Riot in the Rights
The Trump presidency has been a rocky road for pretty much everyone to the left of Trump himself. Nonetheless, the lethal efforts of the President’s supporters, at his command, to storm the Capitol and overturn 2020’s supposedly ‘fraudulent’ result by force, seems to have been the final straw. Many of the Trump machine’s most loyal enthusiasts have now broken ranks. As for the sceptics both in the US and internationally, this attempted takeover, which left dozens injured and seven people dead, has been met with a torrent of condemnation (laced, every so often, with a splash of