It's always "$600 checks two years ago and 50-cent raises for workers are causing inflation"
and never "$3 trillion from the Fed to bail out the stock market, $1 trillion in annual corporate stock buybacks and a 1,322% rise in CEO pay since 1978 are causing inflation"
The justified outrage belongs to those who oppose these insane attempts.
Lincoln said it a Gettysburg: we are now met on the battlefield…
The big battle was Jan6. So far.
Events like this are skirmishes building to the next one.
And their first intention, need and goal is to dismantle the functioning
institutions and structures of the society they wish to conquer.
Plenty of books have been recently published the detail this phenomena in painful, bludgeoning, detail.
There Is a certain Machiavellian genius to it, this hopeless power grab. it will destroy whatever good there is in American democracy.
These forces cannot win in the normal venues of policy debates. They have no platform or vision for the future other than their own power lusts.
Unintelligible rage, void of content, but full of fury, that the systems are not prepared to deal with, and so are overrun. Rendered ineffective, or even incapable to fulfill even their most basic functions.
A more contemporary ex is the nonsensical attacks on election officials
One of the first times this was seen on a large scale was the astonishing hypocrisy and lizard brain rage exampled by the “tea party“ (itself an Astroturf “movement“) during the time the health care issue.
Now seen in school meetings & other public venues the screamers spew
A key tactic of the toxic right wing, well exampled in the Trump era, which reified into Trumpism is to flood institutions: esp courts, gov agencies & public square w endless attacks of faux outrage in specific violation of core values.
It is corrosive making subversion possible.