"Which is the truly bizarre thing about this whole fiasco. The devotion to Trump would be more understandable if he had made the average Americans life materially better while he was in office. But he didn’t.

Sure the stock market rose, but average Americans don’t own stocks, and if they do it is a very small amount. Wages didn’t get better, healthcare didn’t get more affordable, housing didn’t get more affordable, the environment didn’t become better protected, and he criminally failed to address an unprecedented pandemic that he knew the severity of since before it hit our shores, and has now resulted in nearly 400,000 deaths, many of them preventable, and an economic collapse for most Americans who weren’t already wealthy.

They stormed the Capitol for a lie, to fight for a president that is a fraud, while all of the real problems this country faces remain unresolved."

[counterpunch.org]