Is America At The Beginning Of An American Insurgency?

An explosion caused by a police munition at the Capitol Building, January 6. Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the seat of Congress last Wednesday, forcing lawmakers who were certifying Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory into hiding in a harrowing assault on the heart of American democracy that left five dead. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Yahoo News: Attack on Capitol was the beginning of an American insurgency, counterterrorism experts warn

After ransacking the U.S. Capitol and threatening the lives of members of Congress on Jan. 6, they walked down the building’s broad steps unmolested and into the mythology of right-wing extremism.

Many wore shirts identifying them as acolytes of QAnon, riders in “the Storm” who believe the fever-dream conspiracy that they are foot soldiers in a war against Satan-worshipping pedophiles in the government’s “deep state” bureaucracy.

There were also neo-Nazis and anti-Semites in the overwhelmingly white crowd, including a man wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt. Racists rallied to the Confederate flag of rebellion that some of the insurrectionists waved in the halls of Congress.

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WNU Editor: For as long as I can remember there has always been fringe groups in the U.S., and groups that have caused major damage and destruction in the U.S. in the name of protest. We witnessed what Antifa and Black Lives Matter did to many American cities in 2020. But are we on the verge of a right-wing American insurgency that would surpass the mayhem that we saw in 2020? I do not see it to the levels that the above "counter-terrorism experts" are saying. Not even close.