January 6th: Summoning the Mob

According to the January 6th indictment which charged Trump with, among other crimes, conspiracy to defraud the United States: ‘On December 19, 2020, after cultivating widespread anger and resentment for weeks with his knowingly false claims of election fraud, the Defendant urged his supporters to travel to Washington on the day of the certification proceeding, tweeting, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Throughout late December, he repeatedly urged his supporters to come to Washington for January 6.’

Source: Trigger, Experience, Reaction (II)

That ‘will be wild’ online post was interpreted by the United States congressional January 6th inquiry committee as performing the role of ‘summoning the mob’ (‘Summoning’ means literally accessing the Mana (orthographically represented as ‘Moni’) inside the mob’s minds, and implanting the intention) to travel to the Capitol to prevent the peaceful transition of power from Trump to President Biden on 6th January 2021. As the vice Chairperson Liz Cheney put it: ‘President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.’

Source: Trigger, Experience, Reaction (II)

TER as political weapon. Trigger: weeks of cultivated anger about a “stolen election.” Experience: righteous fury. Reaction: storm the Capitol. “Summoning” is not metaphorical — it literally means accessing the Mana inside the mob’s minds. Trump designed the trigger, knew the experience it would produce, and channelled the reaction toward the Capitol.

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