For some reason they waited until a couple of days after the anniversary of 1/6 to do it, but their inspiration is obvious. Thanks, Donald.
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if he is planning to remain in Florida, I hope that he will not be permitted to upgrade from a tourist visa.
And will the local authorities ever enforce the stipulation that trump cannot use Mar-a-Lago as a residence? Maybe then he'd go into exile.
They could retreat to a jungle compound in the Everglades, claim it's the Amazon and rule the world from there, declaring taxation illegal and graft a form of civic pride throughout the world, so inspiring the billions who now labor in the soulless trap of despair to rise as one and throw off their shackles, and bringing them as one with them into a new world, a better world, lit by the welcoming light of the eternal friendship and love they share with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, and, of course, Ivanka.
Regardless of whether one supports or deplores this, it SHOULD make one rather more cautious about claims of what drove Trump's popularity which are rooted in American specifics, whether these are claims about racism, Fox News, or the electoral system.
When you see the same sort of thing in the US, Brazil, the Philippines or (to some extent) India, you really need to recalibrate.
But of course they will have zero such effect, since the goal of domestic political rhetoric is not to explain/understand, it is to bludgeon.
I haven't seen anyone claim that racism or fascism is unique to the US. Trumpism obviously isn't unique in the world: it has historical antecedents in German, Italian and Spanish fascism, Bolshevism and modern parallels in Hungary, the Philippines India and Brazil. The popularity of Trumpism is driven by the same beliefs that made/make those examples popular, and all honest people who prefer democracy understand that.
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I guess it really was economic anxiety, eh?
I don't even get what these idiots thought they were trying to achieve. At least 1/6 had a comprehensible logic: storm the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's win, thereby keep Trump in power. It didn't work because Congress is mobile and fled before the rioters could get them, hid in undisclosed locations, and were eventually rescued by the National Guard.
But in this case, the rioters stormed the capital when the government wasn't even there. Did they think seizing the buildings was a way to seize power? The government is the people who hold the key power jobs, not the buildings they operate out of. The most plausible explanation I can think of is that they were trying to seed a military coup, but it should have already been obvious that the military is cool with Lula and not interested in helping the Bolsonaristas.
So what were they thinking?
To make matters even more stupid, they brazenly and cheerfully repeated the legally fatal error of documenting themselves breaking the law on social media. Is there any reason to believe that this will work out for them any better in Brazil than it did for their counterparts in the US!?
Were they thinking?
It makes one less embarrassed to know that another group of citizens not of your own nation will perform political acts of violence for the McRib.
Stupidity is a world wide phenomenon. No single country has a monopoly.
Crowds of these insurgents have been camping outside military posts urging a military coup that would restore Bolsonaro as dictator. They no doubt thought storming the nearly empty capitol complex would cause the military to take over, as they wished. Did not happen, which is good. Sao Paulo has a major highway named after the first military general dictator in the 60s, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco. When my wife was an exchange student in Brazil long ago during the military dictatorship, the teacher would close the classroom door whenever the teenage American girl commented on government, politics, or rights, which were discussed only in private in those days unless you wanted to be interviewed by the military as a potential subversive.