US Politics

After the fact, the White House very quickly found itself in a
supercharged version of the situation that Cruz and Hawley are also
in. They presumed they could cynically ride this movement for their
own ends. They gleefully lit match after match, and eventually to
their horror they managed to set themselves on fire along with
everyone else. They clearly incited these events. They saw them spin
rapidly out of control. They ended Wednesday afternoon with five
people dead, the Capitol defiled, and the country stunned.

From here: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2021/01/08/what-happened/