The death rattles of the Trump presidency have been as violent and obscene as his time in office. Wednesday’s storming of the US capitol building by his White supremacist supporters would be too far-fetched for a movie, the fact the events actually occurred tell us how thin the line between nightmare and reality is. Politicians, commentators and the general public have struggled to explain the scenes because they are incomprehensible. A US president being suspended from social media because he tweeted support for a racist mob invading the US capitol building whilst congress was in session. There is no part of that sentence that can be rationally understood. Forget Trump and the mob for a second, the simple fact that a handful of thugs got into parliament when politicians were working should be unimaginable. People have been right to draw a stark contrast with the over-policing that occurs anytime a group of Black people suggest they may be at the nation’s capital. It should terrify everyone to know that white privilege extends to angry mobs looking for insurrection. In order to understand these events, we have to stop looking for a rational explanation because there is none. Whiteness is a psychosis, which places the state in a delirium that defies all reason and logic. Only by accepting this can we begin to address the issue of racism.
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