In a very real sense, January 6 was not the end of a movement—some last-gasp attempt of a weakened and aggrieved group supporting a politician who didn’t want to admit he’d lost an election. No. If we are paying close attention to the extremist backstory of the people who stormed the Capitol that day, we will see that the insurrection was the logical next step for a certain diminishing White Christian population trying desperately to retake what they considered theirs. Acclimating or adjusting themselves to the inevitable waves of religious, racial, and other forms of diversity, for White
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