So where will the Q/oathkeeper/proud boy crowds go in this upcoming war between the orange man and dumb DeSantis.
Nickname will be something a 5 year old would come up with.
Our kid is the only reason we are staying for now. Born and raised in Austin so luckily we are in a bubble but I'm ready to leave and have a couple friends who are making the move to other states purely for political reasons.
Even though I'm all in on schadenfreude of the Rights FAAFO.... This? Fuck this.
*however, this might be the type of thing that forces the GOP to actually do something, anything to address the violence and angst they've fed over the decades.
No one says that they weren't. But it has been conflated to be the purpose of BLM (which is only to ask for a change to how police and other government systems handle race relations) rather than a subset of bad actors with their own agenda to destroy things. Additionally, a decent percentage of those rightfully prosecuted were those who were not part of the protests and there to make the movement look bad.
In contrast, the Jan. 6 insurrection was designed and implemented to stop a transition of power, against the will of the people (you know, our votes) thus stopping our democracy from existing after a couple hundred years.
Like comparing apples and hippopotamus.
I'd also argue that the Bush administrations actions regarding the expanding scope of military response, especially lies to justify, fed into general distrust of government (deep state and military complex). A major underlying theme to the alt-right is their justification for "burning it all down" to start over again. They think they are patriots fighting against a tyrannical government. All bad things can now be veiwed done by the boogeyman government (rightly or wrongly). See: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3295595
Government reactions to 9 11 could be argued directly fed into the insurrection by amplifying distrust of government...... Along with the decades long marketing campaign by the GOP that government is bad.