FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2016 file photo Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum holds a gun as he guards the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed takeover of the refuge, was later shot by state police officers after he fled an attempted police stop. Experts say right-wing extremism like the Malheur takeover had previously mostly played out in isolated pockets or smaller cities in America before the deadly assault by rioters on the U.S.
Mary McCord, a former acting U.S. assistant attorney general for national security, said the climate for the insurrection had been building throughout the Trump presidency. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors U.S. extremists, has recorded a 55% increase in the number of white nationalist hate groups since 2017.
Donald Trump is no longer president and his social media reach has been severely curtailed, with Twitter banning him. The extremists had come together in Washington on Jan. 6 because of their fervent belief in Trump's lies that the presidential election had been stolen, and in response to Trump's tweeted declaration that the protest in Washington “will be wild.”
Believers in QAnon are also reeling after Trump left office without fulfilling their baseless belief that he would vanquish a supposed cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals, including top Democrats, operating a child sex trafficking ring.“We gave it our all.
I wonder if they destroyed as many cities over the decades as Black LIES Matter has destroyed over the summer .
One thing leads to another.
I did a playlets on the GOP and it's problems with this element and the standoff in Organ standoff. How the groups around that issue drafted the 2014 GOP platform on Public Lands. I had friends that wanted to join Bundy back then.
Is “evolution” the right word here?
What were the riots all summer per the looting , burning, what extremist were those who were let out of jail and helped per VP HARRIS? So this one incident on the Capitol brought in 25,000 of our military who are treated like bums? WHY? More of the Democrat concept of military
Ted?
best Bernie meme?
Anarchists have been attacking the police and federal bldgs for 2 year in Portland. Why no investigation of these extremists?
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'Insurrection reveals to everyone the rise of violent right wing domestic terrorism over past decades' FYH
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