“Tribalism is over reductive… Tribalism is a calculus once your values start clashing with your social circle. If I criticize someone here, I will lose my social circle, the way I make money, I will lose the ability to provide for my children. I feel like I can’t leave this world in order to do something else, which is the crux of what’s happening right now.”

“All of these very violent actors are all going to the capital at a specific time. They believe the government is stealing their power and the election. And there is a very specific theory that they want to make happen.”

“I saw Ron DeSantis as someone who would take the fears [Republicans] had of cultural Marxism. And not only reign it in, but use the rule of law to do so… The Trump way of going about things… we don’t like the constitution, we don’t like precident, we’re just gonna go with our gut. And Trumpists, there position is always post-hoc backwards justifying of exactly what he did. When it became clear the Ron DeSantis could not pull it off, everyone went back to Trump.”

“The ability to follow your beliefs is dependent on whether you are able to support yourself financially, emotionally… that you have some sort of way out and your not going to completely collapse. The people who became Trumpists… to speak generously… did it out of fear if losing their way of life or because there was such a big financial incentive for them to become part of it. I’m not sure there is a true believer of Trumpism… Trumpism is just following whatever he says in any given moment and hoping for the best because it’s Trump. Would I lose everything to walk away… could I pull this off to get out of the group? What’s an acceptable risk to take?