Why some Trump supporters believe there’s another American Revolution coming
The mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6 claimed they were only doing what the Founding Fathers had done in 1776.
Jan 15, 2021 · 09:30 pm
A supporter of US President Donald Trump carries a Confederate battle flag on the second floor of the US Capitol.
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The alt-right, QAnon, paramilitary and Donald Trump-supporting mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 claimed they were only doing what the so-called “founding fathers” of the US had done in 1776: overthrowing an illegitimate government that no longer represented them.
This was the start of what they called the “second American Revolution”.