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Why America must remember 6 January as its Day of Infamy
Behavioural insights could be harnessed to pre-empt mob violence
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Cass R. Sunstein
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January the 6th, 2021, is a day that should live in infamy a day on which the fundamental institutions of the US were suddenly attacked. It will take a long time to understand fully why political passion crossed the line into an insurrection at the US Capitol, but social science research illuminates part of the picture. Long-standing feelings of rage, humiliation, racism and hatred did not explode spontaneously. They were fuelled and unleashed, above all by President Donald Trump. That’s what turned those feelings into action.