view, it seems very wild to think that a small group of people could pose a threat to the most militarized superstate in world history. but if you are this group of white power activists any ha a plan for self-styled terrorism, guerilla warfare, disrupting infrastructure, sabotage and assassination. and they took a long view of gradual destabilization leading to race war that they believed could work. so this question of ability to carry out a plan came into play in ways that just were not translated very well, for instance in jury instruction. all right. although the psychological barrier of being able to imagine a coup effort working suddenly got a lot easier for everybody in the country, including you go presumably every member of some future jury a year ago this month. it s fascinating stuff in the history here. the history here is rich and dark and fascinating. and doesn t point in any one
view? so there is a good news bad news outcome about charlottesville. on one hand we have a rare instance of a court holding white power activists accountable for the violence that they set out to create with those big settlements, the evidence of conspiracy between groups and activists, this is a good sort of momentum block for some parts of the movement. bad news is we are talking about an opportunistic ground swell of people that has for decades if not generations made a practice of shifting tactics to sort of take advantage of openings in public opinion. so what they got in charlottesville, in a unite the right rally was a very clear message they should not be rallying quite in that way. that leads to court casies, costly legal defense, and the public really didn t like it.