We Mock the Rioters as Ignorant Buffoons at Our Peril
Many of them looed an awful lot like our community leaders and that will make repairing the damage much harder.
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By JACK SHAFER
Jack Shafer is Politico’s senior media writer.
The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan wasted no time in her piece about the blitzkrieging of the Capitol on Jan. 6 to present her class-based critique of the mob. In her first sentence, Flanagan introduced the insurrectionists as “a coalition of the willing: deadbeat dads, YouPorn enthusiasts, slow students, and MMA fans” and went on to claim that they had “pulled into the swamp with bellies full of beer and Sausage McMuffins, maybe a little high on Adderall, ready to get it done.”
Having steered her essay onto insult highway, she laid rubber in ...










