There are details on the Nashville bombing and bomber I can’t understand, but that should inform the discussion. The building outside which the van exploded was owned by AT&T, but was unusual. No windows, no signs, no details. There’s another such building in New York, just many more stories. It houses the national interface between big telecom and the National Security Agency. It is at least a 50-50 proposition that the Nashville building houses a similar regional interface. Warner, the bomber, was in position to know that. A 5G delusion seems more difficult to believe than a belief than a Big Brother opponent.
Warner lived in Antioch, a community that’s a transition between urban Nashville (Davidson County) and more-rural Rutherford County. Nashville may be the most integrated larger city in the country, but it includes a lot of majority-white and -black neighborhoods. Antioch is genuinely integrated and mostly moderate conservative. Warner seemed to get along with his neighbors, something that would not have been the case had he been on either a left or right fringe.
My speculation is a middle-class man gone into pandemic overload taking out his frustration on a symbol of nationwide intrusive government.
You know what they say about diagnosing a patient you haven’t examined … in psychiatry, it violates the “Goldwater Rule.”
I enjoyed your analysis, but how much lava does your “if the super-heated rock is highly ionized, my magnetic reverse-polarity” bucket really carry?