"financial troubles" obviously not the same thing as "working class" but yeah, the rioters were overwhelmingly financially insecure. It'd be cool and rhetorically convenient if they were all rich boat dealership assholes but that's not the reality.
Fascism is very attractive to those who feel they deserve a privileged position in society but who either feel their position is threatened, lose it or never gets it.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaires and failing small business tyrants see fascism as a way to regain the status they feel they've lost.
Sometimes the working class can be manipulated into working for fascists. Anyone can. It fucking sucks.
They aren't anti-capitalist and you can bet your ass most of them are anti-communist.
"financial troubles" obviously not the same thing as "working class" but yeah, the rioters were overwhelmingly financially insecure. It'd be cool and rhetorically convenient if they were all rich boat dealership assholes but that's not the reality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/10/capitol-insurrectionists-jenna-ryan-financial-problems/
Fascism is very attractive to those who feel they deserve a privileged position in society but who either feel their position is threatened, lose it or never gets it.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaires and failing small business tyrants see fascism as a way to regain the status they feel they've lost.