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.