But Trump’s ragged army of violent, conspiracy-minded, undereducated and “freedom-obsessed” white men hates that government. It claims to want nothing to do with a sensible concept that feeds them, finds them medical care and repairs their flooded or burned homes. The hard right wants chaos.
New Yorker journalist Luke Mogelson’s stunning new book, “The Storm is Here: An American Crucible,” makes clear that month by month during the pandemic, they fought violently across the country to cause riots, kill Blacks and their white supporters, reinstate Trump, and eventually to overturn government. Mogelson says they received much support from local police, which bodes ill for future insurrections.
The storm raged in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oregon and nationwide as Black Lives Matter roared after George Floyd’s hideous public execution.
Their motives were and remain many: a mad belief that Trump is the Q in QAnon, that masks and vaccine mandates were emblems of tyranny on a level with concentration camps; that “Nazi” can be applied to just about anything; a fanatical religious belief in some kind of coming apocalypse; that Floyd deserved to die; that the nation must put them, personally, first.
But Trump’s ragged army of violent, conspiracy-minded, undereducated and “freedom-obsessed” white men hates that government. It claims to want nothing to do with a sensible concept that feeds them, finds them medical care and repairs their flooded or burned homes. The hard right wants chaos.
New Yorker journalist Luke Mogelson’s stunning new book, “The Storm is Here: An American Crucible,” makes clear that month by month during the pandemic, they fought violently across the country to cause riots, kill Blacks and their white supporters, reinstate Trump, and eventually to overturn government. Mogelson says they received much support from local police, which bodes ill for future insurrections.
The storm raged in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oregon and nationwide as Black Lives Matter roared after George Floyd’s hideous public execution.
Their motives were and remain many: a mad belief that Trump is the Q in QAnon, that masks and vaccine mandates were emblems of tyranny on a level with concentration camps; that “Nazi” can be applied to just about anything; a fanatical religious belief in some kind of coming apocalypse; that Floyd deserved to die; that the nation must put them, personally, first.
The author is quite deluded, or knowingly lying.