“America First!” Was a Hit; But Who is a Real American to the Firsters?

Barry Dredze
5 min readApr 7, 2021
Unite The Right marchers, University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 (Photo by Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress)

“You very likely will not be flattened by the news that Economic Insecurity does not hold a prominent place in the data,” wrote Charlie Pierce in Esquire about Robert Pape’s recent University of Chicago study of Capitol rioters arrested during the January 6 insurrection. “Neither will you be stunned by what form of insecurity actually does.”

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Barry Dredze

Just another mortal, tweaking my cognitive map on the fly.