US Capitol assault: a genuine co-production between Trump and the crowd

Reducing the events that unfolded to whether former US President Donald Trump did or didn’t “incite” or “instruct” the crowd limits an understanding of Trumpism and of the critical role of mass events in developing the movement

09 January 2022 - 00:00

By Evangelos Ntontis, Klara Jurstakova, Evangelos Ntontis, Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher

Reducing the events that unfolded to whether former US President Donald Trump did or didn’t “incite” or “instruct” the crowd limits an understanding of Trumpism and of the critical role of mass events in developing the movement

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