there s this is the people who actually do get prosecuted. one of these guys who was an insurrectionist, one of the grunts that broke into the capital, 56-year-old former nypd officer has taken the old self-defense argument that police normally use in situations where they harm a civilian. he tried to apply that to his defense. he didn t succeed. he actually was convicted, but, you know, all of it is then usable to then be reinterpreted for trumpism. there s no question about it. this is not an individual. this is not a personal vendetta. this is not an individual assault. this is a pathology that haynes saided the body politic. if we re talking about covid as a metaphor, then this is something that has spread broad and wide in the body politics especially in trumpocracy in american culture. this is a return to reconstruction, post-reconstruction, when white folk who lost a war but who won the battle of interpretation got on their haunches so to speak and rolled hard against black