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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How we got to January 6th

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Do You Think We Get Here Without Trump?

"He really is a kind of arsonist in that way," says author. "I just haven't seen any other political leader be either willing or able to tap into that deep reservoir of fear and anger the way that he has been able to" Trump's speech from the ellipse when he told the crowd assembled at the Washington Monument directed this rage to a specific physical target, according to John Sutter. Do you think we get here without Trump? He is obviously a symptom of a thousand deeper problems, but do we get herewithout him lighting the match as it were? No, I don't think so.

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