What I'm Reading - The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
Two days before the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, veteran journalist David Neiwert sounded the alarm.
“At the same time that Republican senators and congressmen say they will be contesting the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory in Congress, thousands of Trump supporters—ginned up on conspiracy theories and Trump’s groundless claims of election fraud, as well as his open invitation to supporters for what he promised will be a ‘wild’ event—will be taking to the streets to protest his defeat,” Neiwert wrote for the progressive Daily Kos website.
His warning was prescient: “Given the outcomes of previous pro-Trump protests in D.C., it is virtually certain to result in violence.”
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