Trumpism is at its heart a kind of nihilism, a dogged insistence on perception beating reality - the "great businessman" who's been bankrupted multiple times, the "man of faith" married three times and never attending a church regularly. Trumpism believes in nothing except the image, and the image has created a monster that stormed outside of even his control today. He could have calmed the noise weeks ago, by admitting the obvious and conceding. The spectacle of these insurrectionists storming Congress was mind-boggling, but also feels like it's been foreshadowed in the narrative since chapter one. Trump's schtick is grievance, the idea that all your troubles in life are the fault of some "other". It's a tactic used long before Trump, and despite today's carnage it will undoubtedly be used again and again.
Nik Dirga, 'Trump loses control of his own deluded narrative', RNZ