we had paramilitary organizations, we had conspiracy theorists. and then thatjust accelerated in 2020 between the pandemic and the opposition to government shutdown orders and masking orders and vaccine orders, which led to actually armed assaults on state houses. kind of like a mini version of what we saw on january 6th, but much smaller. but we saw that in lansing, michigan. we saw it in boise, idaho. we saw it in a number of different state capitals. in the spring of 2020, a wave of protests against covid lockdowns erupted, particularly in democrat—controlled states. i went to one at the state house in lansing, michigan. the protesters accused the state government of imposing lockdown restrictions that ignored constitutionally guaranteed rights. the atmosphere was revolutionary. all i can do is affect my local government. my state government.