Summary of Luke Mogelson's The Storm Is Here

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#1 The 2020 election saw a surge in right-wing protests across the country, many of which were attended by armed militias.

#2 In 2020, right-wing militias and white nationalists marched in many US cities, and many Americans seemed to enjoy it.

#3 In 2020, right-wing militias and white nationalists marched in many US cities, and many Americans seemed to enjoy it.

#4 In 2020, right-wing militias and white nationalists marched in many US cities, and many Americans seemed to enjoy it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031942

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On April 15, 2020, thousands of vehicles were involved in a protest in Lansing, Michigan, surrounding the state capitol building. The protests were against the governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who had imposed additional restrictions on commerce and recreation.

#2

In early May, I took an almost-empty flight to New York, then a slightly fuller one to Michigan. I was curious about how the country had changed, and why so many people were sharing a viral photograph of a man with a shaved head and a blond beard mid-screaming in the capitol in Lansing.

#3

I visited Owosso, a small town on the Shiawassee River, in the middle of the state. I met with Karl Manke, a seventy-seven-year-old barber who had reopened his shop in defiance of Governor Whitmer’s prohibition on personal care services.

#4

During several days I spent at the barbershop, I heard Manke give countless customers and journalists the same stump speech. He had lived under fourteen presidents, survived the polio epidemic, and never witnessed such government oppression.

#5

While conservatives often mocked any claims of racial division, the pandemic had created two new disparities that were hard to ignore. First, it disproportionately affected Black communities. Second, the people mobilizing against containment measures were overwhelmingly white.

#6

The Capitol building was a potent symbol for the people whose cries she had heard on the other side of the door. On the eve of the rally, Michelle Gregoire, the school bus driver and Home Guard member, visited the capitol and filmed her friends climbing a marble staircase to the gallery in the House of Representatives. A sergeant at arms told them that the legislature was not in session.

#7

The American Patriot Council, the group that organized the Lansing rally, held a second rally in Grand Rapids. This time, there were no Confederate flags. The children were there in force, as were the armed men in tactical clothing.

#8

In Alabama, during the sixties, sheriffs and deputies were often more ruthless than their municipal counterparts towards African Americans. But Dar Leaf saw himself as heir to a different legacy, that of the constitutional sheriff.

#9

Many anti-lockdowners compared the measures being taken to the atrocities of the Third Reich, which many Nazis used as a cautionary tale for their enemies.

#10

Many anti-lockdowners, while not violent, still placed mask mandates and concentration camps on the same continuum as the