The Tipping Point: What Drove People To Riot At The Capitol? – The Federalist

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Host Ben Domenech and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky outline what drove thousands of people to Washington, D.C., to rally for President Trump and how their frustrations turned into a mob riot.

The bottom line that I heard from everybody is that they dont know who to trust, and they trust Donald Trump, Jashinsky said. And I think that is a really important takeaway. These interviews were conducted before things went crazyand to sort of figuring out how thatmindset is informing some of the unadulterated rage that we saw.

Domenech also addressed how the corporate medias treatment of Wednesdays riot is misleading.

The media is running with this narrative that Trumptold the people to go up there and smash the Capitol, Domenech said. And from my perspective, first off, thats not what he said.

I do believe that he should have done a better job of directing those people. I think that that would have been helpful, but Im not sure to the degreeit would have changed some of the behavior that we saw from some of these folks who seem to be bent on destruction, he continued.

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The Tipping Point: What Drove People To Riot At The Capitol? - The Federalist