One kind of ownership is to take care of, nurture, and protect the thing owned — like these people do with their speedboats.

Another kind of ownership is to assert your right to break, defile, or destroy the thing — like these people do with their country. https://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/1348288275442757634

I think @CaitlinPacific makes good points here, but the quote below is not just engaging in a certain kind of classist othering: it blinds us to the real composition of the mob, which also included lawyers, business owners, elected officials. https://twitter.com/jeffreygoldberg/status/1348289736667000833

More follow-up on @CaitlinPacific’s well-written but too-dismissive characterization of the MAGA Insurrection from a scholar who was on the ground in this great thread. He makes the point that it was a cross-section of the Republican Party. https://twitter.com/terryboutonhist/status/1348365379173822465