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10 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
It's tempting to view Ross Douthat as a clown, because he IS a clown
But Douthat's "There Will Be No Trump Coup" column didn't just offer a totally false account of the danger Trump posed. It also wound itself around to a very genteel version of the same resentful persecution myth that led the mob to the Capitol.
Violent revanchism—whether in the post-Reconstruction South or 1930s Germany or in the Capitol halls on Wednesday—draws on the brutal mob justifying its brutality by claiming they're the ones being victimized and dominated by an unaccountable elite.
And that's the story Ross Douthat keeps murmuring to the readers of the Times.
He wouldn't ever, ever write that minoritarian violence is necessary or justified. He'll just keep writing that liberal politics and the growth of multiracial society leave conservatives feeling helpless and marginalized and dominated by forces that don't care about them.

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