Ex-Oath Keeper outlines dark worldview behind U.S. Capitol attack

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Van Tatenhove’s role was to lay out the apocalyptic worldview that underpins far-right movements such as the Oath Keepers, which he said dreamed of and trained for the kind of high-profile uprising that unfolded in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency. His grim warnings about the potential for future violence also underlined the House committee’s central theme that Jan. 6 was not a single event, but part of an extremist agenda to weaken public trust in democratic institutions and make political violence more palatable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/12/jason-van-tatenhove-oath-keepers-jan-6/

 

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Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP

Amid the parade of awful revelations unearthed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection, one area of immense culpability still needs further fleshing out.

It turns on this question: How is it possible so many Americans became convinced that a reversal of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss was even possible in the first place? What’s been missing from this story has been the role of the Republican Party writ large in helping create the conditions for that belief to take hold.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...son-van-tatenhove-stephen-ayres-deprogrammed/