This violence was fomented in the open, and not for the first time. Right-wing activists have made a habit of organizing in the open and galvanizing supporters to express their desire for violent confrontation.
The historical connections were on full display during Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol.
Trump asked Secretary of State to recalculate vote in phone call. Republican push to keep Trump in power seems doomed.
Fox News has taken a further step back from Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud with a bizarre apparent legal retraction aired during shows hosted by some of the president’s most fervent supporters.
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QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges that the world is run by a powerful cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles, who work to undermine US President Donald Trump and his actions against them, with the cabal operating a gloa global child sex trafficking ring. (Wikipedia)
QAnon is an extremely useful right-wing political project that can be used to justify fighting against social progress. But the main catalyst of its current round of growth is probably the coronavirus.
QAnon has grown from an internet joke to a national political threat - and fuels emerging fascism on the march behind Trump
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