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from Part One - Uncertainty, Risk and Anxiety
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2023
The violent mob that stormed the US Capitol in January 2021 was indeed bred in factories, many now closed, in corporations and college towns, and even in the military. They came mostly from rural areas, towns and smaller cities across the United States. A surprisingly large number would identify themselves as “evangelicals”, claiming to be religiously motivated even though the leader they supported, President Trump, could hardly be defined as a paragon of religious virtue. They were all part of a collection of discrete forces often lumped together under the banner of “populism”. People who occupied the office of House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, included Chris Hood of the neo-Nazi “National Socialist Club” and Nick Ochs from the Proud Boys, a far-right group that President Trump famously called upon to “stand back and stand by” in the first presidential debate of 2020. The Proud Boys are openly misogynistic and anti-immigrant.
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