Capitol Riots

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• 8/14/2022
  

  The January 6 Committee and the Paranoid Style

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  Episodes consistent with the "paranoid style" recur with sufficient frequency in American history to make them a landmark of the culture. But it's less well understood how each individual episode has faded, insight we could use today. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/5/2022
  

  Liberals: The January 6 Hearings Won't Save Us

  by Daniel Bessner and Ben Burgis

  Liberals hoping the televised hearings will result in criminal charges or accountability for Trump and his accomplices are in denial about the culture of elite impunity in America. The Democratic Party can't hope that outrage over January 6 will help them in November. 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  Don't Call them Conservatives

  by Alan J. Singer

  As we confront what is happening in this country, we need to stop calling the MAGA movement conservative.

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• SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
  7/1/2022
  

  Politics and Priorities: The January 6 Hearings and American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  Pragmatism does not mean acting without principles, but only openly, undogmatically. Is the glimmer of bipartisanship on display at the January 6 hearings a sign of hope?

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• SOURCE: Substack
  6/6/2022
  

  Proud Boys Indictment Charges Attempt to Overthrow Government. Does it Matter?

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The charge of seditious conspiracy by a paramilitary organization with close ties to the Trumpian Right is incredibly serious, but will it be met with a shrug?

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/13/2022
  

  History's Guidance to the January 6 Committee

  by Stephen A. West

  The 1872 report of the Congressional Ku Klux Klan Committee offers lessons for the January 6 Commission: expect partisans to weaponize the report, and don't trust "the judgment of history" to clear up doubts about culpability. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2022
  

  Jan. 6 Commission: Trump Allies Engaged in Potential Criminal Conspiracy to Block Certification

  "The court filing is the strongest assertion yet from the committee that it believes Trump and some of his allies potentially committed crimes during the effort to overturn Biden’s victory and by falsely stating repeatedly that the election was stolen."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/26/2022
  

  Capitol Attack Pushed Christian Nationalism to Center of Shifting Far-Right Movement

  Christian nationalism, particularly the sense that America's white, Christian identity is threatened, is a force uniting disparate strains of the far right and a potential bridge between extremists and millions of American Evangelicals, say scholars Kelly J. Baker and Anthea Butler. 

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• SOURCE: The Editorial Board
  1/5/2022
  

  Trumpism is Drawing on Completely Mistaken Understandings of Medieval European History

  "The Bright Ages" co-author Matthew Gabriele discusses the proliferation of medieval imagery in far-right circles and why it gets the history wrong. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  1/6/2022
  

  The Party Is the Problem: The GOP's Long Road to Jan. 6

  by Jan-Werner Müller

  Well before Trump, the Republican Party has been working to build "a tyranny of the minority that believes itself to be the only true Americans."

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• 1/6/2021
  

  We Almost Lost Our Democracy – and Still Could: A Conversation with Congressman Adam Schiff

  by Robin Lindley

  "There's no division in our purpose. We're all united in wanting to get to the truth and expose the truth to the American people and then legislate in a way that protects our country going forward."

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• SOURCE: Uncivil Religion
  1/4/2022
  

  Uncivil Religion: A Collaborative Effort to Understand January 6, 2021

  Historians including Kristin Du Mez and Matthew Gabriele contribute to a new collaborative project analyzing the flood of digital imagery associated with the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and the election results. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/3/2021
  

  The Uncanny Resemblance of the Beer Hall Putsch and the January 6 Insurrection

  by David E. Gumpert

  Jailing and silencing Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 nearly destroyed the National Socialist movement. Without significant punishment, will the plotters of the January 6 putsch be able to repeat the Nazis' second, successful power grab? 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/16/2021
  

  The US Keeps Failing the January 6 Test

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Between Republican obfuscation and Democratic indifference, "it is fair to say that American democracy is in a far more tenuous position today than it was during the January 6 insurrection."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/10/2021
  

  White Supremacists Attacked Democracy and Have Thus Far Faced No Consequences

  by Carol Anderson

  Threatening to demolish the structure of government to preserve white supremacy is a time-honored American tradition, as is escaping consequences for doing so.

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• 7/27/2021
  

  The House January 6th Commission Begins Public Hearings

  After months of interviews with witnesses, the committee opened its public presentation on June 9. With Republicans, Trump allies, and Fox News preemptively denouncing the hearings, will they sway public opinion about the attempted coup or move Congress to protect democratic instititions in the future? 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  6/4/2021
  

  9/11 and 1/6: How an American Nightmare Becomes Real

  by Timothy Snyder

  A historian and analyst of democratic collapse describes a slow-moving nightmare unfolding to ensure minoritarian rule. Will Americans, and their elected representatives, wake up in time? 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/7/2021
  

  Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot

  by Alex Pareene

  The Senate's ethics processes reflect an instution that has historically policed itself. They are completely useless when Senators ignore see political advantage in ignoring institutional norms. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  6/3/2021
  

  We Don't Need a Commission to Study January 6

  by Claire Potter

  The Republicans' success in blocking a January 6 Commission is a disturbing sign of political extremism in one party, but there's no reason to believe that such a commission would have solved the problems underlying the insurrection.

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• 4/11/2021
  

  Prosecuting Sedition in a Divided Nation is a Challenge as Old as America

  by William H. Pruden III

  America's cultural value on free expression makes conviction of far-right radicals on sedition charges unlikely. The Ft. Smith, Arkansas trial in 1988 was a PR victory for the far right when 14 defendants accused of plotting against the government were acquitted.