@scott it could be that too, for sure!

there are interesting things. both parties like to talk about Jan 6, but in very different ways, kind of the inverse of stereotypes. (you'd think it'd be lefties valorizing imprisoned activists as heroes and martyrs, while righties talk up law and order.)

identities really matter in these things. Rs define threat in terms of who, a "good guy" (white, conservative) with a gun makes you safer. Kyle Rittenhouse does the circuit.

@scott i think Democrats are trying to go for a "there are white nationalist lunatics you should fear" take and Republicans with their traditional "there are poor immigrant minority criminals you should fear" but now also adding "radical left movements".

@scott there is a kind of bipartisanship of fear these days.

but i still think the traditional relationship between being afraid on the streets, over crime or political streetfighting, and yearning for authoritarian control holds. (i always could be wrong!)