Click Her to Read: The Capitol Rioters Weren’t ‘Low Class’ : The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule by Adam Serwer on the Atlantic website on January 12, 2021. United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC – Segway Rider Image: David Maiolo Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.