"When I got home and looked at the pictures I had taken at the Capitol that day, what struck me was, as you described, that here were these men in full body armour and camouflage, decked out in Trump paraphernalia, and next to them were these white, middle-aged, middle-class women who were sitting there like they were at a church picnic, taking it easy, while the men next to them were standing up and yelling. It was a weird, sinister, carnival, revival, reunion kind of situation.
But what I recognised was the camaraderie
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There was a real surrealness of these women, who acted like nothing was happening and were using it to livestream to Facebook; an opportunity to plug their businesses from inside the tunnel while the police were spraying tear gas. It was just so surreal. So, I followed these women for a year, and they all led me down the path to conspiracies and ‘conspirituality’, which had nothing to do with what I set out to study in the beginning."
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/21/i-hadnt-anticipated-developing-empathy-for-them-but-you-can-see-how-the-conspirituality-belief-system-also-serves-as-a-set-of-coping-mechanisms/
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