ATLANTA — Georgia resident Bruno Cua, one of the youngest people charged in the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison by a federal
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“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.
“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.
In Washington, he became the youngest person arrested for invading the U.S. Capitol and spent weeks in jail. He was assaulted in jail and contracted COVID-19, leading a judge to reluctantly order his release on March 16 to home confinement. On Monday, the judge handed down new release guidelines for employment.
The Biden administration’s Justice Department has depicted Joseph Cua, a corporate executive, and Alise Cua, a veterinarian turned home-schooler, as bad parents.
Once leading comfortable lives in Atlanta’s outer suburbs, the Cuas now talk of crying sessions and soul-searching. They have vowed to cut off the online world where Bruno came to embrace Mr. Trump’s election victimhood tweets and vowed to fight for the president.