January 6 Capitol riot as populist 'revolution'
example · US political history ·
retold in 3 talks
Trump supporters invading the Capitol claimed to be acting freely to protect their liberty, the paradigm case of abstract freedom deployed to destroy concrete freedom.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“When a crowd of populist partisans of Donald Trump invaded the Capitol. They did a revolution.”
“'This is wonderful, people breaking into the seat of power... just we should have been doing this, the wrong people are doing this.'”
“many of my leftist friends said, but look, this was wonderful. thousands of ordinary people breaking into capital... i noticed in their reaction a little bit of envy and fascination”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Zhou Enlai3Timothy Snyder1Victoria Nuland1Norbert Elias1Karl-Heinz Delvon1Mariana Mazzucato1Byung-Chul Han2Philip Gosse1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Trump supporters invading the Capitol claimed to be acting freely to protect their liberty, the paradigm case of abstract freedom deployed to destroy concrete freedom., illustrating abstract vs. concrete freedom,fascism-populism,freedom as ideology
Leftist friends told Žižek the Capitol storming was wonderful, people breaking into the seat of power, but then noted the wrong people were doing it, capturing the paradox of the new right acting like the old radical left., illustrating new right adopts left tactics,ideological civil war,fascism-populism
Leftist friends expressed envy at Trump supporters storming the Capitol ('we should be doing this'), yet it was a right-wing attack on democracy, showing that the populist right has stolen the left's symbolic gesture of popular uprising., illustrating right-wing appropriation of left tactics,fascism-populism