Extensive article (registration required or behind paywall) about the murderer described him as a Trump-supporting Infowars-listener with dozens of guns, who led a prepper/homeschooler household, who burned his belongings when he was 17 and became a born-again evangelical, who had recently made multiple trips to the Congo to preach against US abortion, homosexuality and gender confusion.
Seems like a classic to me.
But it also quotes someone saying ‘he doesn’t fit the profile’ and finally wraps the article up with a reference to the fact that he served on a workforce commission under Tim Walz for 2 terms.
Is there some confusion about the meaning of ‘extremist groups’ or ‘cults’? Maybe the confusion is that ‘madrassas’ aren’t Christian; and that Jim Jones was an in-person cult whereas today’s cults can just grow online.
If he ran out of money, which seems likely, might have been promised money for his family. More than likely it was his own hare-brained scheme. But the right-wing radicalization which is still ongoing makes it easier for political assassinations to become common in the US the same way they are common in Mexico (etc.)
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