🇺🇸 Nearly half the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 were doctors, lawyers, CEOs and business owners, and only one in ten belonged to a militia Robert Pape's team read every court file on all 1,575 defendants, and the face that came out is the opposite of the one Americans expect. A Boston gynecologist on bodycam beating officers in the rotunda. Defendants who stayed at the Willard. Since then the same pattern: Mangione from generational wealth and an Ivy League degree, the correspondents' dinner shooter from Torrance with a Caltech education and a manifesto casting himself as Robin Hood. Support for political violence now sits above 30 percent on both sides, and his September survey is the highest reading in five years of tracking. His causes are a demographic tipping point, a generation still paying student loans at 48 with no hope of a house, and now a war with no rally-around-the-flag effect at all. The book is "Our Own Worst Enemies," and it's written for the 70 percent who want the temperature down. His advice is dull and it works: call your representative and ask for both sides to cool it. @ProfessorPape