OPINION: Authoritarianism and political extremism, laced with white supremacy, has infiltrated mainstream America, writes YordanosEyoel. That's our new normal.
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. I was attending a virtual memorial service — mourning one of the hundreds of thousands lost in the pandemic — when I heard an anxious cry from an adjacent room where the television was blaring.
Layer this on the prevailing notion of American exceptionalism — a fortified and virtuous “shining city on a hill” unique from the rest of the world — makes tragedies like Jan. 6 not only possible, but probable in a new era of politically fueled violence. In the absence of a real awakening and an urgent collective action against authoritarianism, we are doomed.by the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats on the Jan.
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