Saturday 19 June 2021

The prospects of a post-democratic world

 

The prospects of a post-democratic world

The systemic collapse of American democracy posits the prospects of a post-democratic world – a world in which countries do not have a functioning democratic model to look up to.

Trump supporters near the US Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protesters stormed the historic building, breaking windows and clashing with police. Trump supporters had gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. [Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images]
The world at large may not have noticed but as I write this article, and in fact ever since the humiliating defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the Republican Party has been actively working to dismantle the democratic foundations of the United States by – among other means – systematically limiting people’s voting rights.

The more Americans vote, the more reactionary white Republicans feel threatened by the prospect of full democracy and the more aggressive they become in their efforts to quash the will of the people.

Just two weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell coordinated his Republican colleagues to block the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the US capitol by a mob of Trump supporters determined to overturn the result of the presidential election.

If this attempted coup had happened in any other country, we would have swiftly classified it as what it actually is – a tinpot dictator’s violent attack on the people’s democratic will. In the US, however, the massive machinery of the Republican Party is working at both state and federal levels to push this atrocity under the rug and sustain the delusion of democracy.

The violent end of Trump’s presidency was the last indication, if anyone needed any more indications, that democracy in America is exclusively for white people who believe in white supremacy. If these heavily armed and violent white people cannot have their way, then they will burn down the very foundations of this country’s claim to democracy.

Voter suppression galore

It is in the same vein that the Republicans are now actively engaged in introducing voter suppression bills to prevent significant parts of the population from having a say in their own future. This is nothing but a repeat of the Jim Crow laws that were put in place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to prevent African Americans from exercising their hard-earned voting rights.

As evident in the case of legislation recently introduced in Texas, Republicans are also trying to make it much easier for judges to overturn the results of an election – something Trump and his gang of corrupt lawyers led by the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, tried but failed to do after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

The Republicans, in short, are making sure that only white Americans, or more accurately, white supremacist Republicans, get to vote. And, if any others manage to slip through and vote in significant numbers, they want to be able to annul the result.

This is the current condition of the so-called “oldest democracy in the world”.

The racist Republican assault on America’s democratic norms is not limited to voting rights either – it also extends to immigration laws. Republicans across the country are working overtime to make it particularly difficult for Hispanic immigrants to become American citizens because they tend to overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

Of course, Republicans are not the only ones responsible for this sorry state of American democracy. Countless influential politicians, Black and white, Republican and Democrat, have long been buried in the deep pockets of predatory billionaires and cooperations. Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, was one of them. These billionaires and billion-dollar companies appear to respect the democratic will of Americans, as long as they elect candidates who will be loyal and obedient to their power.

The leaders of the Democratic Party, such as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, are positing themselves as the champions of democracy who are seeking to expand and protect the voting rights of all Americans. But their protests are meaningless. The corruption of the Democratic Party is part of the problem here. Yes, they protest against the ransacking of the Capitol by white supremacist thugs on January 6, but they are deadly silent on the fact that long before and long after that fateful day, the US Capitol has been and continues to be attacked by clean-shaven and business suit-attired lobbyists and propagandists. Nobody sees, nobody reports, nobody objects to that regular assault on Capitol Hill, which is integral to American politics on a routine and daily basis.

So the systematic collapse of American democracy started long before white supremacist Republicans embarked on their latest, and perhaps most insidious, attack on the voting rights of Americans.

Nevertheless, the current state of affairs in the US is highly alarming – not only for Americans but all peoples of the world.

The illusion of democracy

One should neither exaggerate nor underestimate the catastrophic consequences of the developments in the US for the world at large.

Many across the globe have long viewed America as the leading model of democratic governance to which they can look for guidance and aspiration. Thus, the systemic collapse of American democracy posits the prospects of a post-democratic world – a world in which countries do not have a functioning democratic model to look up to. What will happen to the struggles for democratic rule across the globe when the “oldest democracy in the world” is falling on its face?

Of course, the US has never really been an ideal democratic model. A country founded on the genocidal slaughter of Indigenous peoples, sustained by the course of murderous African slavery, and endured by the dominant ideology of white supremacy before and after its Civil War and Civil Rights movement can scarce be the model of democratic governance for anyone.

But nevertheless, a fragile democratic aspiration has always struggled for survival at the heart of this republic. Formerly enslaved African Americans fought for and earned voting rights against all odds – with much sacrifice, enduring relentless assault against their very humanity. After decades of unyielding struggle, Black Americans earned the right to vote with the 15th Amendment to the US constitution in 1870.

Yes, the 15th Amendment did theoretically give African Americans the right to vote, but soon the Jim Crow Laws made sure these rights remained fictional rather than effectively implemented. Voter intimidation, murder and mayhem, systematically prevented Black people from going anywhere near the voting booths. Today the descendants of those very racist southerners are doing their best to prevent African Americans and other consistently disenfranchised communities from having a say in their own future.

The world at a loss

The scene in the US is not very hopeful. Even more destructive than Republican efforts to limit voting rights or whitewash the January 6 coup attempt are the conspiracy theories that continue to maintain that the last presidential election was rigged, that Trump is still the real president, and that the current administration is not legitimate. Those who promote these conspiracy theories are not fools. They know what they are doing. They are casting consistent doubt on the legacy and efficacy of the democratic institutions of this country, so their alternative facts become as legitimate as the democratic will of the people who think differently than they do.

It is not accidental that Michael Flynn, a former military officer who is now fully in the service of Donald Trump’s fascistic aspirations, is now on the record proposing a Myanmar-like coup in the US. You cannot be any more blunt as to where this country stands now.

US democracy is crumbling. But do peoples around the world have any other example to look up to in their efforts to achieve democratic governance? Should they turn to hypocritical European democracies, which always appear to be on the verge of transforming into fascist dictatorships? Should they turn to Russia, governed by Putin’s mafia? Should they aspire to the mechanised totalitarianism of China, the systemic thuggery of Brazil, the horrors of Hindu supremacy in India, the fake pantomime of democracy in Syria, Iran or Turkey? Should they look up to the autocratic regimes in much of the Islamic world or the settler-colonialism of Israel built on the broken backs of the Palestinians?

Where exactly is the model for the future of democratic rule in the world?

Today, there is no single partially functioning democracy that could offer the world a model or a blueprint. The very foundations of liberal democracy in European Enlightenment modernity have been taken over by predatory capitalism that is robbing the world blind while preaching “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” to the same world.

Today, the only exemplary models of democratic aspiration in the world are massive social uprisings like the Black Lives Matter and national liberation movements like the one in occupied Palestine.

But neither of these movements can achieve their goals alone – they need each other. The symbiotic relationship that has recently emerged between Black Lives Matter in the US and the liberation struggle in Palestine allows for both movements to correct each other’s course and grow together.

Without active solidarity with Black Lives Matter, the Palestinian national liberation can easily dissolve into the pathetic banalities of Arab politics. Without active solidarity with Palestinians, Black Lives Matter can easily degenerate into yet more parochial identity politics susceptible to the career opportunism of people like Barack and Michelle Obama.

The only prospect of full democracy for all the impoverished and tyrannised, robbed and maligned people around the globe is cross-border solidarity beyond the banalities of specific national cultures and towards a transnational public sphere where each nation is saved by the experiences of the other. Barack Obama and Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin, as Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu are integral to the same circle of despair and deception.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/16/the-prospects-of-a-post-democratic-world

Farm attack, woman ambushed, tied up, firearms robbed, Volksrust

 

SOUTH Africa: Farm attack, woman ambushed, tied up, firearms robbed, Volksrust

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Farm attack, woman ambushed, tied up, firearms robbed, Volksrust
Farm attack, woman ambushed, tied up, firearms robbed, Volksrust

A farm attack took place on 18 June 2021, at 18:10, on the farm Elandshoek in Volksrust, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. A woman, Liana Bierman had arrived home after taking the farm workers home and as she entered the home two balaclava clad attackers were waiting for her.

The woman was attacked, hit over the head, assaulted and then tied up.

The home was ransacked and two firearms were robbed. After the attackers fled the woman managed to untie herself and raise the alarm.

All roleplayers responded but there were no arrests.

The police are investigating.

There is no other information available at this stage.

Read about more farm attacks here

Information supplied by Oorgrens veiligheid

South Africa Today – South Africa News

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/mpumalanga/farm-attack-woman-ambushed-tied-up-firearms-robbed-volksrust/

Friday 18 June 2021

Farm attack: 5 Attackers, 1 in police uniform, invade lodge, Nelspruit

 

South Africa: Farm attack: 5 Attackers, 1 in police uniform, invade lodge, Nelspruit

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Farm attack: 5 Attackers, 1 in police uniform, invade lodge, Nelspruit
Farm attack: 5 Attackers, 1 in police uniform, invade lodge, Nelspruit

A farm attack took place on the morning of 17 June 2021, at the Lizard Rock lodge, South of Nelspruit, in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. A man was taking inventory at the lodge when a white Toyota bakkie, without registration plates, pulled up. About five men, one of them dressed in a police uniform stated they were busy with an investigation.

Upon entering onto the property the attackers tied up the victim and robbed the business of some cash. They then took him to his house.

The house which is located a few hundred metres from the lodge was then invaded where they also tied up the man’s wife and robbed them of other valuables.

The attackers then fled the scene.

Police are investigating but there have been no arrests. There is no other information available at this stage.

Read about more farm attacks here

Information supplied by Oorgrens veiligheid

South Africa Today – South Africa News

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/mpumalanga/farm-attack-5-attackers-1-in-police-uniform-invade-lodge-nelspruit/

Farm murder, man shot in stomach during home invasion, Rocky Drift

 

South Africa: Farm murder, man shot in stomach during home invasion, Rocky Drift

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Farm murder, man shot in stomach during home invasion, Rocky Drift
Farm murder, man shot in stomach during home invasion, Rocky Drift

A farm murder took place on the night of 16 June 2021, in Rocky Drift in the Lowveld, between Nelspruit and Witrivier, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Five black males, of which at least one was armed, tried to break into different houses on the property.

At one house the resident was shot in the stomach.

The man was taken to Kiaat hospital where he later died as a result of the gunshot wound.

It is unknown if the attackers stole anything. They fled on foot after the incident.

The police are investigating but there have been no arrests. There is no other information available at this stage.

Read about more farm attacks here 

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/mpumalanga/farm-murder-man-shot-in-stomach-during-home-invasion-rocky-drift/

Pangolin Reintroduction Project revives the endangered species

 

Pangolin Reintroduction Project revives the endangered species




Cape Town - Efforts to reintroduce and rehabilitate the world’s most trafficked mammal, the pangolin, were made possible by the Pangolin Reintroduction Project.

The project was established by the African Pangolin Working Group, Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital and Phinda Private Game Reserve to revive the endangered species.

Four expert pangolin conservationists, participated in a panel discussion to address efforts made to protect this endangered animal, including what is being done by andBeyond's conservation team at Phinda Private Game Reserve.

The panel conservationists included andBeyond Phinda private game Reserve Ecologist and Conservationist Craig Sholto-Douglas, Ecological monitor Charlie Defos, Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist, African Pangolin Working Group Executive Director Nikki Wright and African Pangolin Working Group Founder and Chairperson Ray Jansen.

“In 2029 alone, over 60 tonnes of scales were recovered before leaving the African continent, that means 119 pangolins would have been poached that year, and that's only the ones that were recovered,” said Sholto-Douglas.






Reserve Ecologist and Conservationist Craig Sholto-Douglas said pangolins were the most trafficked mammal in the world and have been locally extinct in the northern Kwa-Zulu Natal area for close to four decades.

Sholto-Douglas said the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital and African Pangolin Working Group were looking into the feasibility of using the Phinda Game Reserve as one of the release sites for pangolins that have been poached and then recovered from the illegal wildlife trade by the SAPS and the African Pangolin Working Group and Sting operation.

“The biggest challenges have been trying to understand their ecology, their behaviour, what ants and termite species they feed on but overall it's been worth it because I think we now have a viable breeding population of pangolins,” said the Conservationist.

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/watch-pangolin-reintroduction-project-revives-the-endangered-species-321c8998-7d0f-4904-b785-e1631a7c4130

What’s cooking today: Glazed navel orange fridge tart

 

What’s cooking today: Glazed navel orange fridge tart

By Tony Jackman 18 June 2021



The navel orange is large and sweet (unlike the relative bitterness of the Seville orange), its juice a joy to drink and its zest lending just the right amount of pizazz to sauces, broths and desserts.


Ingredients

1 packet lemon-flavoured Tennis biscuits

125 g butter (quarter of a 500 g brick), melted

1.5 cans sweetened condensed milk

6 Tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice

Zest of 2 oranges

180 ml fresh cream

2 tsp gelatine powder melted by pouring it on top of 3 Tbsp of very hot (not boiled) water, and stirred until there are no grains left

For the glaze:

⅔ cup/ 80 ml orange juice 

90 g castor sugar

4 to 6 very thin orange slices

Method

Crumble the Tennis biscuits in a bowl as finely as possible. Stir in the grated zest of one (note: one) orange. Melt the butter and stir it in.

Grease a deep 24 cm (more or less) tart dish (there is a lot of filling so you need depth to hold it) and press the biscuits in to cover the bottom and up the sides. This needs a bit of care and patience.

Refrigerate the base for 30 minutes or more.

Whip the cream until it’s thick; soft peak stage.

In a bowl, mix together the condensed milk, grated zest of the other orange, orange juice, and whisk well.

Fold in the whipped cream.

Prepare and cool the gelatine mixture, then very quickly whisk it in while pouring it in in a thin stream.

Pour the mixture into the refrigerated base and return to the fridge to set for a few hours.

While it is setting, make the glaze: combine all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved. Cook gently for about 5 minutes until the syrup turns fairly thick and sticky. It needs to be like hot jam. Remove the orange slices to a side plate. When the syrup has cooled but is not yet set, arrange the orange slices on top of the tart and drizzle the syrup over using a dessertspoon. Refrigerate until needed.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-06-18-whats-cooking-today-glazed-navel-orange-fridge-tart/

Endangered tortoise Agatha does her bit for conservation - 2 eggs at a time

 

Endangered tortoise Agatha does her bit for conservation - 2 eggs at a time

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Agatha, a radiated tortoise at Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn, with her two eggs.
Agatha, a radiated tortoise at Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn, with her two eggs.
Cango Wildlife Ranch
  • Only days after turning 80, a rare tortoise has laid two eggs.
  • The radiated tortoise celebrated her birthday last week at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn.
  • The eggs are part of conservation efforts to save the critically endangered species.

Only two days after celebrating her 80th birthday, a critically endangered tortoise has surprised her caretakers by laying two eggs.

Agatha, an endangered radiated tortoise, ushered in the milestone at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn on 1 June. Two days later, Agatha produced two eggs.

She is already a mother of five. Along with her 35-year-old husband, Astro, the family lives at the wildlife centre.

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The tortoises usually only started producing eggs once they have grown longer than 30cm, said zoological assistant director Narinda Beukes.

"They can lay multiple clutches of eggs throughout the season, which is anything from three to 12 eggs per clutch. The multiple clutches depend on seasons and environmental conditions. Egg production can also increase when they are around 15 to 20 years old," she added.

Agatha and Astro joined the wildlife centre almost a decade ago when they were donated by a facility in KwaZulu-Natal in April 2012. Her five young hatched two years ago - something Beukes described as a "phenomenal contribution to the population management of these rare and beautiful reptilia".

Indigenous to Madagascar, these tortoises occupy a narrow band of spiny forest along the island's south-west coast. The species appears to have disappeared entirely from about 40% of its past range due to habitat destruction and hunting.

"It is estimated that their population has declined by 80% over the past five decades," said Beukes.

But young produced in captivity, such as Agatha’s brood, could hold the key to conserving this and other critically endangered species.

"There are 39 animal species currently listed by the IUCN as extinct in the wild. These are species that would have vanished totally were it not for captive populations around the world, many of which reside in zoological facilities.

She added:

For species whose survival in the wild looks in doubt, we are setting up animal 'insurance' populations, captive groups of animals that could, in a worst-case scenario, assist in reintroduction to the wild should the original population become extinct.

But for now, the young tortoises will be kept at the wildlife centre.

"Due to habitat destruction and poaching of radiated tortoises in Madagascar, they do not have a safe and sustainable home to be released into.

"Accredited zoological facilities around the world like Cango Wildlife Ranch are working with Madagascar groups to assist in the conservation of their natural habitats and to reduce poaching," Beukes said. 

And in the meantime, the eggs will be in good hands at the wildlife centre.

"The eggs need to be handled carefully in captivity. The eggs are removed from the substrate that they were laid in and placed in our special incubation substrate, but it is crucial that the angle of the eggs is not altered," she added.

For the first month, the eggs will undergo a period of suspended development at a constant temperate. They will then be placed into an incubator that maintains the ideal temperature and humidity level.

"Some eggs might naturally be infertile and others may have sustained damage when laid and may only be noticed later in the incubation period. The eggs are monitored regularly to maintain ideal conditions to ensure a successful hatch," said Beukes.

The eggs are expected to hatch in five to eight months.

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/endangered-tortoise-agatha-does-her-bit-for-conservation-2-eggs-at-a-time-20210609

Thursday 17 June 2021

Media hushes up report suggesting FBI involvement in Capitol riot, as White House turns anti-terrorism efforts on American people

 

Media hushes up report suggesting FBI involvement in Capitol riot, as White House turns anti-terrorism efforts on American people


Media hushes up report suggesting FBI involvement in Capitol riot, as White House turns anti-terrorism efforts on American people
Court filings suggest that FBI operatives were among the mob who stormed the US Capitol in January, and may have set up the riot. With the riot used as justification for new terrorism policy, the media is downplaying the story.

Fox News broadcast possibly the most consequential report in recent cable news history on Tuesday night. Fox host Tucker Carlson alleged that the Capitol Hill riot on January 6 – dubbed an “insurrection,” an “assault on our democracy,” and “domestic terrorism” – may have been, at least partly, an inside job.

Carlson’s claims were first made a day earlier by Revolver News, an upstart right-wing news site. Revolver pored over charging documents against members of the ‘Oath Keepers’ and ‘Proud Boys’ militias who took part in the riots, and discovered that alongside the rioters were dozens of “unindicted co-conspirators.” These co-conspirators (UCCs for short) allegedly committed crimes equal to or greater than those of the militia members, but were kept anonymous in the court documents and not charged.

Some of them allegedly booked and paid for hotel rooms for militia members, others provided transport to Washington DC. They set up communications channels on walkie-talkie-style apps, and used these apps to whip their comrades into a riotous frenzy. “I want to see thousands of normies burn that city to ash today,” one UCC said in a Proud Boys group chat, while another, identified only as “Person 1,” replied, “God let it happen… I will settle with seeing them smash some pigs to dust.”

One alleged member of the Oath Keepers, 65-year-old Thomas Caldwell of Virginia, was charged with conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and unlawful entry on restricted building or grounds – a rap sheet that could see him face 20 years in prison. However, a certain “Person Two” who took part in the exact same actions as Caldwell was not charged. Neither was a “Person Three” who offered Caldwell a hotel room and spoke of bringing explosives to the riot.

The fact that these individuals have not been named is suspicious, but isn’t conclusive proof of foul play. Co-conspirators often remain anonymous and escape charges if they strike plea deals and inform on their comrades. Yet the first plea deal in the Oath Keepers case was struck in April, three months after the first indictment mentioned UCCs. Altogether, 20 UCCs were mentioned in the Oath Keepers case.

Other reasons for anonymity are “pragmatic considerations and evidentiary concerns,” broad terms that at least in the Caldwell ‘Oath Keepers’ case, don’t add up, given the evidence against “Person Two” is every bit as solid as that against Caldwell.

The FBI has admitted to infiltrating right-wing militias before, and when the country’s attention was focused on the threat of Islamic terrorism rather than white extremism, research suggests that three quarters of would-be jihadist bombers were given the explosives to carry out their attacks by the FBI.


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The militia plot last year to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was orchestrated almost entirely by the FBI. The plotters’ driver and ‘explosives expert’ were both agents, while the militia’s head of security was an undercover informant. At every meeting leading up to the supposed kidnap attempt, an FBI source was present, and out of the five men who drove a van to kidnap Whitmer, three were FBI agents and informants. In a further bizarre coincidence, the FBI agent in charge of the infiltration operation was promoted after the plot was foiled, and given a position in the agency’s Washington DC field office. He now oversees the prosecution of hundreds of Capitol rioters.

Again, none of this proves federal involvement in the events of January 6. It merely suggests the possibility. A bipartisan Senate report blames the riot on “intelligence failures,” and FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate in March that his agency would “do better” to prevent such incidents from taking place in the future. Revolver called for lawmakers to ask Wray three questions in light of the latest report.

In short, the questions are: To what extent were the militia groups present on January 6 infiltrated by federal agencies or their informants? Exactly how many agents or informants were present at the Capitol during the infamous “siege” and what roles did they play? And finally, of all the UCCs referenced in the charging documents, how many worked as confidential informants or undercover operatives for the federal government?

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R), a stalwart defender of former President Donald Trump, has already written to Wray asking these exact questions. 

However, the mainstream media has rushed to attack Carlson and Revolver News founder Darren Beattie, calling their claims “baseless” “conspiracy theories” and “propaganda.”

Twitter even posted a warning on Wednesday, reminding users that “federal law does not permit cooperating witnesses or informants to be charged with conspiracy, despite a baseless suggestion by Tucker Carlson.” However, Twitter’s warning makes the exact same argument as Carlson did – that the witnesses or informants were not charged, as they were witnesses or informants.

Whether or not the FBI took part in or partly instigated the riot, the events of January 6 have already been used to drum up support for a new domestic war on terrorism. Hundreds of defendants have been arrested in what prosecutors termed a “shock and awe” campaign. Liberal pundits compared the riot to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, while penning articles calling for a dramatic expansion of the surveillance state and the forcible “re-education” of Donald Trump’s supporters.

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And the Biden administration is on board. A month after Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate that “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists... specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,” are the nation’s top terrorist threat, the White House released its new domestic terrorism strategy on Wednesday. The strategy promises an extra $100 million for the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department, and also states that the federal government will work closer with social media companies to combat “extremist content,” and “disinformation and misinformation” – nebulous terms used by many to denote content that counters the establishment narrative.

The report also promises funding for all federal agencies to “ensure domestic terrorists are not employed within our military or law enforcement ranks.” Its stated goal is “to prevent individuals who pose domestic terrorism threats from being placed in positions of trust.”

With “domestic terrorist” and “Trump supporter” often conflated by the media and top Democrats, the strategy will likely be seen by the right as an attempt to politically purge the nation’s institutions. Regardless of whether the true extent of alleged federal involvement in the January 6 riot is ever uncovered, Americans will be living with the consequences of that day for years, if not decades, to come.

https://www.rt.com/usa/526860-capitol-riot-fbi-agents/