House Oversight And Judiciary Committees Become Latest Fox News Affiliates*
It’s been six years since Trump’s American Carnage speech. His open support for white supremacy, rightwing domestic terror, and violence against political detractors began well before then. Gaining momentum under his bully pulpit, however, Trump ’s willingness to use violence to project power over his perceived enemies accelerated during his failed second run for president. It crescendoed when he unleashed his ‘stand back and stand by’ crowd on January 6, 2021.
We should expect an encore performance after Trump is indicted (‘witch hunt’), defeated in the primaries (‘rigged’), and/or again declared the loser in 2024 (‘stolen’).
Despite Trump’s waning influence, political violence and rightwing domestic terror are not just disgusting artifacts of a disreputable blip in American history or, sadly, a bitter aftertaste. Remember Cesar Sayoc?
So long as Republican leaders chum the waters with false claims of stolen and rigged elections, the Solomon Peñas will eagerly take the bait and Republicans gleefully reel them in. See Magician McConnell’s Sleight of Hand Leaves The Front Door Wide Open to Extremists*.