Jean Guerrero: How the insurrection’s ideology came straight out of 1990s California politics
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Jan 05, 2022
3 minutes
One year ago, a mob of mostly white men stormed the Capitol to try to keep their race-baiting idol in power. The attack was not the “last gasp” of white supremacy or Trumpism, as many might have wanted to believe.
It was a national coming out party for the political right’s insurrectionist movement, whose roots were set decades ago and completely visible in California’s electoral politics and public battles in the 1990s.
These rioters were neither outliers nor rejects within the Republican Party. A University of Chicago report released
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