Astroturf Capital Storming Jackasses and the Lukewarm Response

[maeve66]

I've been teaching my students words like "coup" and "putsch" and "astroturf". I have never hidden my politics at school*, and have had many discussions on wars being prosecuted, on Black Lives Matter protests, on gender and sexuality, and so on. But this is so freighted with history. With our Plague Year and with this storming of the Capitol

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[villagecharm]

Here's a decent article on some of the shadowy groups who organized the Jan. 6 events, although I'm sure the Times and the Post will have more in-depth looks soon:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/09/pro-trump-dark-money-groups-organized-the-rally-that-led-to-deadly-capitol-hill-riot.html

It's probably a cliched observation, but it strikes me that people storming a capitol building chanting "1776!" in order to overturn representative government is pretty much exactly the kind of thing Marx had in mind with the famous "first tragedy, then farce" observation.