I [Goldberg] particularly remember those plastic cuffs, but I understood them only as a performance of zealous commitment. Later we would learn that these men—some of whom were #ProudBoys — believed that they would actually be arresting members of #Congress in “defense” of the #Constitution. I interviewed one of them. “It’s all in the Bible,” he said. “Everything is predicted. Donald #Trump is in the Bible.” Grifters could not exist, of course, without a population primed to be grifted.

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