Thread by @humblywalkin

Was I appalled? Yes.
Was I shocked? Of course.
Was I surprised. Not in the slightest.

A thread of resources to address the questions "How did we get here?" and "Who could have possibly seen this coming?"

#MAGARiots

(1/10)

Outgoing President Trump's line to supporters at a rally near the White House on Wednesday that “You will never take back our country with weakness” is just one more intentionally ambiguous statement that set the stage for the #Insurrection at the U.S. #Capitol building. (2/10)

Read this thread (tiny.cc/z0w7tz) from @SethAbramson & this article from @atrupar (tiny.cc/e1w7tz) to explore the specifics of what @POTUS said in his "Incitement to #Insurrection" speech on January 6th. (3/10)

For a comprehensive timeline of Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence, read "Donald Trump is the Accelerant" by @voxdotcom reporter @FabiolaCineas: tiny.cc/kyv7tz (4/10)

Far-right online spaces were awash with violent threats in the run-up to Wednesday where posters took Trump's foreshadowing that the "big protest" would be "wild" as a nudge to bring guns to D.C. (5/10)

Read "Pro-Trump forums erupt with violent threats ahead of Wednesday’s rally against the 2020 election" from @washingtonpost reporters @craigtimberg & @drewharwell: tiny.cc/6zv7tz (6/10)

.@karaswisher of the @nytimes #Sway podcast spoke with (and pushed back on) @parler_app CEO John Matze about the speech enabled by his platform in "If You Are on @parler_app, You Saw the Mob Coming": tiny.cc/n0w7tz (7/10)

.@propublica reporters @loganjaffe @lydiadepillis @iarnsdorf & @davidmcswane write of how ill-prepared #CapitolPolice were, especially given how #CapitolRioters planned for weeks in plain sight" & "made no effort to hide their intentions": tiny.cc/51w7tz (8/10)

@nytimes op-ed columnist @paulkrugman considers "a few milestones on the way to the sacking of the Capitol" in his piece on Thursday entitled "Appeasement Got Us Where We Are": tiny.cc/50w7tz (9/10)

.@TheAtlantic @elainejgodfrey says "The violence could have been even worse. Some of the rioters clearly wanted it to be. And Wednesday’s attack may have had another, more insidious effect: to embolden extremists." (tiny.cc/p1w7tz) (10/10)

We'd heard this sort of thing before during the 2016 campaign, but I member thinking anf feeling at the time that this felt far more ominous than his saying it back then:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1308895705860321283?s=09

#CapitolRiot #CapitolRiots #CapitolCoup

"Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. Someone's gonna get hurt. Someone's gonna get shot. Someone's get killed." --@Gabriel Sterling on Dec. 1st, 2020

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1348442553624965126?s=19