and that has allowed it to take root overseas to help us answer this question we're joined by melanie smith the head of analysis at africa where she studies online social movements and dissent from asian and nero dietrich who monitors right wing populism and extremism in germany thank you both for joining me in the arena melanie i'm going to start with you kumin our supporters thought there in the final days of donald trump's presidency that he would declare martial law that his political opponents like joe biden be carried out in handcuffs that it would be a great awakening now you'll be shocked to know that none of that happened instead of the many of his supporters were deep platform the after january 6th. how do they make sense of all of that this gap between the grand predictions and what's actually happening in real life i think there's a lot of confusion and there's a lot of disappointment. from cuban and supporters and also from leaders in the movement he really thought that this prophecy was going to come true that donald trump would be reelected and the democrats were led to guant