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Donald Trump, the
Wall Street Journal reports, is mulling the idea of forming a third party in his own political image, and calling it the Patriot Party. The report cites White House insiders who said the departing ex-president discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last week. Patriot, however, is not just any old name. It s a self-descriptive name that has long been used by the conspiracist Bircherite radical right, for decades a cauldron of extremist behavior ranging from Oklahoma City to the Bundy standoffs to the January 6 Capitol insurrection, spawning such movements as militias and sovereign citizens and inspiring numerous acts of violence. It s an unmistakable dogwhistle to the American extremist right.