The new Atlantic magazine has a front page article worth everyone's time. Titled, The New Anarchy, and among its many highlights is this:

"The conditions that make a society vulnerable to political violence are complex but well established: highly visible wealth disparity, declining trust in democratic institutions, a perceived sense of victimhood, intense partisan estrangement based on identity, rapid demographic change, flourishing conspiracy theories, violent and dehumanizing rhetoric against "the other", a sharply divided electorate, and a belief among those who flirt with violence that they can get away with it. All of those conditions were present at the turn of the last century. All of them are present today. "

Here at DBIS, we've certainly touched upon all of these topics. The warning about "those who flirt with violence" underscores the importance of continuing the prosecutions related to January 6!

Peter T.