January 6 in a nutshell

From Mark Lilla, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024):

Give someone a set of political principles, and he will need to understand them before acting. Give someone a history, a story that elicits anger and pride, hope and courage, and you have instantly made a soldier.

A story rather than reasoning. January 6, 2021, is an obvious case in point.

Also from this book
Gears and springs : “The man with the X-ray eyes” : Political nostalgics