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)