There is a line, albeit it a bit curvy, from Charlottesville in 2017 to the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.  The passageways from one event to the other may be found on the dark web where anonymous conspirators reinforce each others darkest thoughts about America in 2024.  In her book, “Black Pill”, former Vice News and now CNN correspondent, Elle Reeve, takes her book’s title from the popular reference in “The Matrix” and explores the darkest of all the pills which she describes as “a dark but gleeful nihilism: the system is corrupt, and its collapse is inevitable.  There is no hope.  Times are bad and they’re going to get worse.  You swallow the black pill and accept the end is coming.”  With that as a backdrop, she explores in the book and with us the line that is crossed when posturing online morphs into taking action in real life.  In vivid detail, she describes the ‘characters’ caught up in this frenzy and their ability to capture our politics.