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Jacobinmag
Republican Elites Are Responsible for Today’s Storming of the Capitol
Donald Trump has long stoked the kind of abhorrent far-right action that we saw storm the capitol today. But it's not just Trump who deserves the blame: mainstream conservatives created this monster, too
Article from yesterday morning
https://truthout.org/articles/activists-brace-for-far-right-violence-as-trumps-diehard-backers-flood-dc/
https://truthout.org/articles/activists-brace-for-far-right-violence-as-trumps-diehard-backers-flood-dc/
Truthout
Activists Brace for Far Right Violence as Trump’s Diehard Backers Flood DC
D.C. activists are rebuffing Sen. Josh Hawley’s accusations of “leftwing violence” while bracing for far right violence.
"The Center for Strategic and International Studies found that white supremacist groups were responsible for two-thirds of the 61 “terrorist plots and attacks” in the first eight months of 2020. Since 2009, the far right has been responsible for over 70 percent of extremist murders. In 2019, the FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act report recorded 7,314 hate crimes, up from 7,120 the year before."
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/05/trump-rally-far-right-violence/
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/05/trump-rally-far-right-violence/
The Intercept
Far-Right Violence Is Going to Be a Threat With or Without Trump’s Calls to Action
The far right is focused on “Stop the Steal” nonsense, but violence driven by white supremacy won’t disappear even if Trump does.
"Anyone who has been in the streets—against police murder, against the Muslim ban, against the war on women, against the Iraq War, against the World Trade Organization—has likely developed the instinct to brace when they encounter police lines. Even if they have no respect for them. Even if they want to be peaceful. They know anything that looks like force will be met with force—because the force of the protest is meant to be in conflict with the force of the state.
That is, obviously, not what we saw around and in the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday."
https://newrepublic.com/article/160816/congress-mob-law-enforcement-alliance
That is, obviously, not what we saw around and in the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday."
https://newrepublic.com/article/160816/congress-mob-law-enforcement-alliance
The New Republic
This Isn’t an Insurrection. It’s an Alliance.
There is only one side at the Capitol siege.