WE ARE AT THE GREATEST PERIL SINCE THE EARLY 1970S — WHEN THE THREAT EMANATED FROM THE LEFT — OF A VIOLENT INSURGENCY IN AMERICA. INDEED, THE SCATTERED TERRORIST ATTACKS WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT YEARS MIGHT BE THE EARLY STAGES OF SUCH AN UPRISING. IF WE SEE A FULL-BLOWN INSURGENCY — SOMETHING THAT BECOMES MORE LIKELY IF TRUMP RUNS AND LOSES AGAIN IN 2024 — IT WOULD BEAR ROUGHLY THE SAME SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP TO THE GOP THAT THE IRA HAD TO THE SINN FEIN PARTY: IT WOULD BE THE ARMED WING OF A LARGER RIGHT-WING MOVEMENT. TRUMP MADE THE RELATIONSHIP EXPLICIT WHEN HE TOLD THE PROUD BOYS, AN ARMED GROUP THAT LATER TOOK PART IN THE JAN. 6 ATTACK ON CONGRESS, TO “STAND BACK AND STAND BY.”; MAX BOOT, WASHINGTON POST
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