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Banana Republic: US judge reluctantly grants DOJ motion to dismiss J6 convictions against several Oath Keepers terrorists. {The Guardian 4 August}
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/jan-6-oath-keepers-cases-dismissed
A government now, in effect, in the business of aiding and abetting right-wing terrorism. Another major act of political violence — deadlier than the events of 6 January 2021 — may well lie somewhere on the horizon (sooner rather than later). When it comes, terrorist groups such as the Oath Keepers will play a prominent role in a broader campaign of intimidation directed against Americans who refuse to support this regime. The trajectory of the past decade, and especially since Trump’s return to office, can only result, ultimately, in bloodshed.
I have felt such a moment coming since before Trump's first presidency even commenced: the gradual normalisation of political violence, culminating in demands for personal loyalty to one man rather than to the Constitution or the Republic itself. Many times over and always in a cold sweat and my heart pounding, I have frequently imagined motorcycle gangs, rogue police officers, military personnel willing to ignore their oaths (more than many would care to believe), evangelical zealots, and other assorted malevolents in the #MAGA coalition being encouraged — formally or otherwise — to harass, threaten, and terrorise anybody who does not submit to their will.
If we cannot at least recognise that the groundwork for both the horrors we have already endured and the greater horrors yet to come hath been deliberately laid — brick by brick and day by day since 2016 — then we have learned nothing from the past ten years. Trump's rhetoric and behaviour are more extreme than ever, and he is an ageing and decrepit man with little left to lose after successfully insulating himself from meaningful legal accountability. Should he conclude that greater chaos serves his interests, nothing in his conduct or character suggests restraint. His most fervent followers — acolytes — have repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to excuse anything done by him or in his name. They are complicit motherf**kers, millions upon millions of them.
Terrorism directed against fellow Americans, economic suicide, more wars abroad, disease spreading, civil liberties steadily eroding, infrastructure collapsing, and disorder on every front. What y'all voted for, #Murica.
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