‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants
Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.
An intrusion by militia groups into the Michigan Statehouse last April now seems a harbinger of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.Credit.Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg
Feb. 8, 2021
LANSING, Mich. Dozens of heavily armed militiamen crowded into the Michigan Statehouse last April to protest a stay-at-home order by the Democratic governor to slow the pandemic. Chanting and stomping their feet, they halted legislative business, tried to force their way onto the floor and brandished rifles from the gallery over lawmakers below.
A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched on Washington
Kelly J. Baker is a writer and scholar of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. She sees frightening similarities between that culture and the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Ku Klux Klan members paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington in August 1925 to show their dominance and presence in American life.Credit.Bettmann/Getty Images
Published Feb. 7, 2021Updated Feb. 10, 2021
In the weeks following the attack on the Capitol, many Americans have argued over whether the violence was a singular event or an outcome of deeper forces. Voters, Congress and a former president are clashing over who is to blame.
The issue of violent extremist groups in the United States has come to the top of the agenda since a mob of far-right groups stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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