Trump, to his supporters, is the avenging angel who is going to lay waste to the “elites,” the smarty-pantses and do-gooders, the godless and the smug, the satisfied and the comfortable. He has taken their itching frustrations about the unfairness of life and created a morality play around them, and cast himself as the central character. Winning elections, burning effigies, even shooting at other citizens does not soothe their anger but instead deepens the spiritual and moral void that haunts them.ĭonald Trump is central to this fraying of public sanity, because he has done one thing for such people that no one else could do: He has made their lives interesting. When people are driven by fantasies, by resentment, by an internalized sense of inferiority, there is no redemption in anything. What makes this situation worse is that there is no remedy for it. These are not people who are going to take up the flag of a state or of a deeper cause they have already taken up the flag of a failed president, and their causes are a farrago of conspiracy theories and pulpy science-fiction plots.
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They will tell you that they are for “liberty” and “freedom,” but these are merely code words for personal grudges, racial and class resentments, and a generalized paranoia that dark forces are manipulating their lives. There is no single principle that unites these Americans in their violence against their fellow citizens. Occasionally, they will congeal into a mob, as they did on January 6, 2021. These people, acting individually or in small groups, will be led not by rebel generals but by narcissistic wannabe heroes, and they will be egged on by cowards and instigators who will inflame them from the safety of a television or radio studio-or from behind the shield of elected office. Instead, all of us face random threats and unpredictable dangers from people among us who spend too much time watching television and plunging down internet rabbit holes.
We do not risk the creation of organized armies and militias in Virginia or Louisiana or Alabama marching on federal institutions. The United States now faces a different kind of violence, from people who believe in nothing-or at least, in nothing real. Compared with the bizarre ideas and half-baked wackiness that now infest American political life, the arguments between the North and the South look like a deep treatise on government. But at least the Civil War, as I said Friday on Morning Joe during a panel on political violence in America, was about something. The American Civil War was a bloodbath driven by the inevitable confrontation between the Union and the organized forces of sedition and slavery.
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