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secondDespite all the surprise of the events in Washington and with all the understanding of reaching the most drastic vocabulary: it was not a “coup attempt”, as it was immediately called. Is there not a coup d’état with part of the military on the side of the attackers, occupying radio stations, blocking the streets? Where would the substitute government have been? Where is the attack on the state as an organization? The invented horn-bearers, who claim the profession of “Qanon shaman”, as seen among right-wing extremists, give little reason to suppose that the seizure of power is imminent. In the Senate, prominent Trump supporters walked away, willing or not and at the last minute, but from him.
Despite the violence, explosives and battering rams, the rioters’ main weapons were the smartphones with which they took selfies. Domestic terrorism, a frequently used second term, required more than a violent attempt to disrupt an important parliamentary session on Capitol Hill, as unique as it is in American history. Unless a terrorism is defined that does not have as its objective material horror, but entirely symbolic destruction. Many of the rioters were walking through the Capitol as if it were Monument Open Day. The fact that someone was photographed hooting over the Gerald R. Ford statue (see our photo) gives an idea of how much it was all about taking photos and screaming. There was no political awareness of who Gerald R. Ford was, that is, he was certainly not a sworn witness for Trump’s citizens. It was about showing others that you were there.
“Insurrection”, that is, uprising, or “sedition”, that is, mutiny, does not respond to the social meaning of this action. The coup aimed at the degradation of an institution, the production of images in the media and on the Internet, and the destruction of the moment when the new president was confirmed.
Still a good thirty million Americans
This is not only notable due to the inadequate security of the Capitol that made it possible. Trump and his family have lived for years from the fact that the rest just don’t think it’s possible or don’t think about what they will do soon after. Michelle Obama’s phrase “When they go down, we go up” honors them, but has an open flank when dishonor is completely indifferent. Imagine if those in military disguise had really settled on “domestic terrorism” of a material nature. The complicated Washington police and house rules would not have been an excuse.
Therefore, it is not so threatening that a violent seizure of power is emerging in the United States. It is threatening that, according to polls, about half of Republicans consider the right-wing “walk-in” with people in T-shirts that say “Auschwitz Camp” and those who stretch out in the chair of the parliamentary president to be okay. You could say: only half of the Republicans remain. But based on the number of Trump voters, that would still be a good 30 million Americans.
