'Our President Wants Us Here': The Mob That Stormed the Capitol

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Crowds of Trump supporters swarmed past barricades and breached the Capitol Building on Wednesday.
‘Our President Wants Us Here’: The Mob That Stormed the Capitol
They came from around the country, with different affiliations — QAnon, Proud Boys, a few elected officials, many everyday Americans. One allegiance united them.
nytimes.com
1:57 PM · Jan 9, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-rioters.html

It was the table setter for what would come, with nearly 2,000 people gathering in Washington on Tuesday evening for a “Rally to Save America.” Speaker after angry speaker stoked stolen-election conspiracy theories and name-checked sworn enemies: Democrats and weak Republicans, Communists and Satanists.

Still, the crowd seemed a bit giddy at the prospect of helping President Trump reverse the result of the election — though at times the language evoked a call to arms. “It is time for war,” one speaker declared.

As the audience thinned, groups of young men emerged in Kevlar vests and helmets, a number of them holding clubs and knives. Some were aligned with the neofascist Proud Boys; others with the Three Percenters, a far-right militia group.

“We’re not backing down anymore,” said a man with fresh stitches on his head. “This is our country.”

That night reflected a disconcerting mix of free speech and certain menace; of everyday Americans supporting their president and extremists prepared to commit violence for him. All had assembled in answer to Mr. Trump’s repeated appeals to attend a march to the Capitol the next day that he promised would be “wild.”

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Re: "This is our country": The greatest threat to white supremacy is democracy. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Kumbaya

Trump wants Patriots to show up in Washington on the 6th at 11 am. And
it isn’t to all sing Kumbaya. That’s why it’s different.
38 posted on 1/1/2021, by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)