It's not downplaying the grassroots elements of the antidemocracy movement to note that, as one small example, the ***Republican Attorneys General Association*** sent robocalls urging people to attend the "March to Save America" on January 6 https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1428746648881139713 …
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Replying to @JakeMGrumbach
I think it's actually quite plausible that thousands of people went off to join a "stop the steal rally" without thinking they were going to storm the capitol and kill mike pence.
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Replying to @MattBruenig @JakeMGrumbach
It's also possible the attorneys general thought they were recruiting people for a rally rather than a capitol storming session
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Replying to @MattBruenig @JakeMGrumbach
No I think they understand that perfectly well, they just don't ever think to ask how it would look to them if it were a lefty thing and not a righty thing.
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I mean, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle was a self-described insurrection launched by self-described insurrectionists! And yet many of our leading commentators refuse to take the threat seriously
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I think the relationship of anarchists to the Democratic party is different than the relationship of, say, the Proud Boys to the GOP.
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how would you characterize the relationship between the proud boys and the GOP
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Replying to @SethAckerman @HeerJeet and
i’m curious like what percentage of GOP congressman have an active proud boys chapter in their district, and what percentage of them have a relationship with such a chapter
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Key figure here is Trump, who does talk about Proud Boys as if they are his unofficial militia.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @SethAckerman and
Seth, I think you underestimate Trump’s salience not as president or now ex president, but as the leader of a large, anti-majoritarian reactionary movement.
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