Is This the Sort of Thing That Authoritarian Movements and the Far Right Do?

Timothy Snyder is the author of a bestseller on tyranny, 20 lessons from the 20th century. He says we should see this as typical right-wing fascist pro-authoritarian tactic that people use all over the world. When you storm institutions, when you show you can make yourself physically present in institutions, what you're showing is symbolically physically that institutions don't matter. What matters is force. And that's a logic which is on display here in Brazil and in the US,. But with the recent twist, it's social media bubbles which allow this to happen.