The Atlantic
Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Doomsday Rhetoric
The Capitol riot showed how the ominous tenor of contemporary GOP messaging could be fueling white conservatives’ extremism.
Updated on January 9, 2021 at 10:06 a.m. ET
The Republican Party’s “Flight 93” revolution tragically, but almost inevitably, came full circle this week in a storm of insurrectionary violence at the U.S. Capitol.
Late in the 2016 presidential campaign, an anonymous author, eventually revealed as Michael Anton, a conservative scholar who later joined the Trump White House, described the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the “Flight 93 Election.” In his widely read essay, Anton insisted that a Democratic victory would change America so irrevocably that conservatives needed to think of themselves as the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11 the ones who chose to bring down the plane to save the U.S. Capitol from al-Qaeda hijackers. Letting
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