The American Right hankers for a civil war: a history in four videos
Before the 2016 election, far-right militiamen held exercises in the Georgia woods to prepare for 'resistance' to a Clinton administration.
Buried inHasson’s deleted emails,
along with correspondence to neo-Nazi leaders and
ruminations on his admiration for Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik,
were his working notes for events around which he was planning actions, notably:
“what if trump illegally impeached” and
“civil war if trump impeached”.
As Chris Hayes adroitly observed,
it’s not hard to find where Hasson might have obtained the belief that civil war would erupt if President Trump were to face impeachment:
Civil war has become an endemic talking point and source of speculation among right-wing pundits.
Only this week,longtime Republican operative Joseph diGenova went on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show and warned:
We are in a civil war in this country.
There's two standards of justice, one for Democrats, one for Republicans.
The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left—
they hate Republicans, they hate Trump.
So the suggestion that there's ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over.
It's not going to be.
It's going to be total war.
And as I say to my friends,
I do two things—
I vote and
I buy guns.
Before he was indicted in the Mueller investigation,
Roger Stone was fond of warning that civil war lay around the corner if any attempt were made to remove Donald Trump from office.
Televangelist and Trump ally Jim Bakker made similar warnings only a few months into the presidency.
Far-right pundits like Kurt Schlichter have pondered what a civil war might look like—
concluding, naturally, that the right will kick their asses.
Even before Trump’s election,
talk of civil war was bubbling up with great frequency among far-right militiamen
who believed a Hillary Clinton presidency would bring about a fresh kind of “tyranny,” many of whom prepared for armed resistance in the event she won.
Indeed, the talk has cropped up in other recent domestic-terrorism incidents:
Three Kansas militiamen arrested in October 2016 for plotting the truck bombing of a rural community of Somali refugees
were acting under the assumption that Clinton would win, and
were planning to act the day after the November election as an opening act of resistance to her administration.
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