have begun to flex and float serious charges tied to the “violent insurrection that attempted to overthrow the United States government.” And with threats of attacks on state capitols across the country and in Washington, D.C. in the coming days and on January 20, when Biden will be sworn in as president, law enforcement is fortifying potential targets and deploying forces.
“I would be very concerned that what happened yesterday gets viewed as this milestone moment, the starting gun of what they perceive to be the oncoming societal collapse and civil war that’s going to lead to their white nation-state,”who served as the assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy at DHS, told me the day after the attack.
Trump’s boot from Twitter and Facebook, coupled with his impeachment—the second in his single four-year term—is certainly a variable in the threat matrix. “The most important motivation now is to ensure that Donald Trump doesn’t have a second act, then he can’t recruit,”a former DHS official, told me last week. “It doesn’t mean that the violence ends, but the violence becomes less lethal when the leadership is essentially decapitated.
In the days ahead, Trump and other elected officials have a critical role to play in either tamping down, or inciting, further violence. “Disenfranchisement empowers and emboldens extremism.
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