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Recent Terrorist Acts Show Trump-inspired Insurrection Turning Into an Insurgency
MAGA terrorists willing to wage war to reinstall Dear Leader
I keep making the same mistake of refusing to heed Malcolm Nance’s advice. Several months ago, he warned that Trump would not go away quietly. During testimony in front of Congress, Nance, a retired counterintelligence officer, warned that Trump’s neofascist movement would morph into an insurgency.
An insurgency is an ongoing violent campaign to overthrow a government. The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was an insurrection, just one act, but that has now morphed into a continuing struggle to topple the United States’ government, and, I shudder as I say this, install former President Donald Trump as a dictator.
The attack on the Capitol was actually stage II of the insurgency. The first shot in was fired in October 2020 when “Boogaloo Boys” and other associated gun nuts tried to take over state capitols. In Michigan, they threatened to kidnap and execute Gov. Gretchen Whitmer live on TV. Now, that’s turned into a sustained terrorism campaign.
