‘Trumpism Is the Last Gasp of a Dying Culture of White Supremacy’
The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop, Adrienne LaFrance wrote in the April 2023 issue.
Adrienne LaFrance acknowledges that political violence can have a legitimate place in a democratic society, noting that “America was born in revolution.” But if King George’s excessive taxes in the 1760s and ’70s presented a just cause for rebellion against the state, why wouldn’t the more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings of American citizens by police in 2022? If we are to treat political violence as the serious problem that it is, we’ll need to know when, if ever, it is legitimate.
Keaton Powers
Laredo, Texas
LaFrance is correct to identify universal access to guns, a fragmented media environment, and the refusal of extreme
