permeates the far right. so if it were someone with a little more gravitas, if it were someone with a little better standing in maga world, we may be looking at something very, very different. see, this is what has been striking to me about this also, is the difference between a universe in which donald trump is the president of the united states and on every platform, rallying people to go do something, and him not being that. i mean that really does make a difference. it was apparent on january 6th, and in watching this develop, him not being on twitter, him not being on facebook, him not being president all seems to me massively important in terms of how many people can be sort of riled up to go to something like this. donald trump was an incredible unifier of extremist factions, from qanon to anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, to militia groups, to, you know, proud boys, street thugs. you name it, he could really rally them to all come together. you know, he did it several