Nobody should be surprised that Trump's loyalists sacked the Cap

Avalon - Nobody should be surprised that Trump's loyalists sacked the Capitol. Survivors and scholars of authoritarian regimes, like Jasmin Mujanovic and Sarah Kendzior, have been warning for years that this was Trump's endgame, using his own rhetoric as proof. Now, for the first time since 1860, we have not had a peaceful transition of power. Right-wing violence and disinformation are the problem, not abstract "polarization." "Both sides" rhetoric obscures that only the Republican Party has its own paramilitaries in the form of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers.