The January 6 crowd blended mainstream celebrities with online-right figures

Evidence

As dawn broke, Trump supporters, including Alex Jones, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers live streamer Anthime “Baked Alaska” Gionet, and even Bob’s Burgers voice actor Jay Johnston, congregated at the Ellipse outside the White House. Trump appeared shortly before noon and delivered a fiery speech: “We fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Around this time, authorities discovered pipe bombs at the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters. Meanwhile, Trump returned to the White House to watch events unfold on Fox News. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 617

Categorization

• XREF: The flattening of a Bob’s Burgers voice actor into the riot crowd exemplifies Marx’s omnivore monoculture — no cultural domain is too mundane to be absorbed into the political spectacle.