1/January 6 was a product of multiple factions operating at multiple layers. Any analyst saying it was just 'one' thing is missing the forest for the trees. Here are a few of these layers.
https://twitter.com/socofthesacred/status/1478384559851032592
2/Christian nationalists, yes. Represented in groups like Council for National Policy. Right wing paramilitary extremists (Oathkeepers, Three Percenters, 1AP). Constitutional Sheriffs. Goldbugs. Anti-CCP (Epoch Times/Guo/Moonies). QAnon cultists. Catholic Trads (Viganò faction).
3/Underlying all of this are broad coalitions of raw power: oil/gas interests, crypto/gold vs. fiat, NATO/EU vs. Eurasianism (Dugin). These coalitions go back decades into longstanding international fascist and criminal networks competing with liberal democracies for primacy.
4/January 6 revealed a set of artifacts of this historical struggle for power. But the artifacts are incidental; understanding comes from looking beyond the artifacts to their context, the people behind them, the networks they belong to, and the historical themes they advance.
5/In the US, we tend to look at the current moment, divorced from history or context, and only at the artifacts. So no, this isn't about "Jesus" or "theocracy" so much as multiple social factions that have been weaponized in service of geopolitical forces opposed to democracy.
6/Until you hear media discussing Jan6 in terms of energy, currency, global fascism, and Eurasianism, we've lost the plot and are playing around with artifacts. Given we are in a global war for the survival of democracy, the stakes could not be higher. We must get this right.
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