Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in January 6th, specifically under the charge of seditious conspiracy. Josh Marshall went back and looked at their coverage of Rhodes and his ties to the Tea Party and other Right Wing groups, from Birthers to 9/11 Truthers to the venerable John Birch lunacy.
It's an obvious correlation of the mainstream emergence of absolute lunacy on the Right with the election of Barack Obama. Was it simply that he was a Democrat? The Right Wing Nut Jobs blew up the Murrah Building when Clinton was president. Even a Good Ol' Boy from Arkansas wasn't insulation against crackpot lunacy from the Right. Vince Foster. Whitewater. It's like they assumed Reagan's counterrevolution to the '60s was permanent and when Democrats actually win power, it must be fraud.
So, while Obama obviously did drive a certain segment of the Right insane because he was presidenting while Black, it also happened with Clinton and 1/6 happened because we elected an old White, Catholic Granddad.
I have no idea what will bleed off this poison. Sending people like Rhodes to prison for a long time is a start.
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