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Watching US President Donald Trump s supporters storm the Capitol last week, I wondered who or what could possibly stop the madness.
And then the answer became clear: corporate America.
The problem seemed insurmountable. The rebels consumed a strict diet of lies, conspiracy theories and us-versus-them rhetoric. They turned out to vote, to protest, to riot. They were willing to commit crimes and shed blood for their leader, whose name and face they wear on their clothes and tattooed into their skin.
Nothing Trump did or did not do – not the 380,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, not saying I ll be with you when he meant I ll be watching you on TV – seemed to turn them against him. But he could easily turn them against anyone he disliked, to the point that the entire Republican Party feared his retribution.