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Climate deniers backed violence and spread pro-insurrection messages before, during, and after January 6
As the mass radicalization wave surged, some individual opponents of climate action may have been swept along by its broad rightward push, propelling them closer to endorsing political violence.
On the evening of January 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former coal mining executive Don Blankenship, who ran against Donald Trump as a third-party candidate in the 2020 election, began an all-caps Twitter thread.
“Why is it that American politicians and the American media support citizen uprisings in China, Poland, South Africa, and throughout the world, but when an American citizen is killed during an uprising against a corrupt American government the citizens are at fault?” @DonBlankenship posted on Twitter.
Climate Deniers Backed Violence and Spread Pro-Insurrection Messages Before, During, and After January 6 desmogblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from desmogblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Prominent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters this week. Some climate deniers, including some with ties to the Heartland Institute and other organizations that have historically helped to create the false impression that there is sizeable scientific