The wrecker spoke to crowd of his supporters in DC and sent them to attack the Capitol. They broke in by force and interrupted Congress, and tried to take over the building.

Violence against the US under a Confederate flags declares treason as well as racism.

Rebecca Solnit: * I call it a coup attempt because, though I assume that it will not prevent the Biden presidency, it certainly intended to.*

I agree.

Using rioters in the streets alongside action by insiders is common practice in coup attempts. That worked, temporarily, in Bolivia in 2018. I think it was employed in Czechoslovakia in 1948. I am sure there are other examples that don't come to my mind now.

I criticize Solnit on one point. She repeatedly describes the actions of the coup supporters as "white male rage." That is an unjust racist/sexist generalization: it falsely imputes that attitude to all white males. Bernie Sanders is a white male; so are various other progressive leaders. So is Biden. They do not participate in that "white male rage". I am not of Sanders's stature, but I too have rejected that attitude all my life.

This stereotype is just as wrong as the hostile stereotypes about blacks and about women, which I am sure Solnit would call out.