The Washington Post has a long piece looking at these regular folks who took a break from their regular folks' life to storm the U.S. Capitol, attack the police officers who defended it, and contribute to an attempt to overthrow the government. What it doesn't have is much in the way of actual explanations. That's a bit of a disappointment, considering that we know quite a bit about how the crowd was radicalized. Then again, if it were The New York Times we were talking about we'd have three reporters all tag-teaming us to show that each Biff and Mary Jane in the crowd were just trying to be «real Americans» who flew into Washington D.C. directly on the wings of an airborne diner and were only wandering through the haze of tear gas because somebody told them there was another diner just off the Senate cloakroom. We'll take what we can get. Read more