Simmering threat of violence comes to fore with search of Trump property

This whole situation is red meat for their base. They use events like this to feed into this fantasy they’ve co-created with their supporters, and defusing the situation would require stepping out of that alternate reality… They’re not going to do that, particularly with 2024 right around the corner.

— Orr Bueno, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland who studies disinformation (Via The Washington Post: Simmering threat of violence comes to fore with search of Trump property)