They Want to Kill Americans Quotes

“When did the Q-Anon ideology start to really infect the Republican base? One of the first times that Donald Trump officially interacted with Q-Anon supporters was when Q-Anon user @MAGAPILL posted a Trump “accomplishment” list. Trump responded in a November 25, 2017, tweet less than a month after the first Q drop: “Wow, even I didn’t realize we did so much. Wish the Fake News would report! Thank you.”10 Most important, the retweet contained a link to MagaPill, a site loaded with conspiracy theories associated with Q-Anon.11 Millions of Twitter users saw Trump’s praise and clicked the link. This introduced Q to the entire MAGA audience.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“During the 2016 election, the Trump campaign employed overt information-warfare tactics through intelligence firms like PsyGroup and Cambridge Analytica.16 PsyGroup’s proposal called Project Rome was presented to Rick Gates, who represented the Trump campaign; it offered “intelligence & influence services” for $3,210,000.17 It also proposed recruiting online influencers to disseminate Trump’s message to fringe “deep web” locations. Parscale was a man who knew the power of the internet. He was linked to Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner and the infamous Cambridge Analytica company.18 Cambridge was a data-mining and message-amplification firm that ran a program that analyzed social media users and crafted highly specific messaging that would appeal to each individual user’s biases, likes, and hobbies. They mastered how to weaponize a person’s inner racism or bigotry. For example, they could identify a white, rural, conservative gun enthusiast who drove a Ford truck based on Facebook posts and buying preferences. That user would then be flooded with messages on illegal immigrants and white families murdered by “urban” Blacks and photos of Ford trucks flying Trump flags. Cambridge also took and amplified Russian-intelligence-crafted themes extolling the glory of Trump. Through the firm’s effort to read social media down to each person’s tastes, it made every Republican in America consume highly targeted Russian memes and themes as nothing less than God’s honest truth.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“This is pure ISIS-like self-radicalization. One could call them Vanilla ISIS.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The ideological heart of the neo-Nazi movement consists of the Fourteen Words: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“It takes religious-level faith to buy into predictions that never, ever come true.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Trump proved himself a physical coward by feigning bone spurs and receiving deferments five times from service in Vietnam,”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“In their minds, they needed to support President Trump by resisting any liberal agenda to combat the virus.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Trump’s well-known hatred of federal agencies was steeped in his fear of being investigated for his real estate holdings and financial relationships with foreign governments.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The only reason the murder of George Floyd was not swept under the thin blue rug was because a citizen filmed his death.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Now tempers must be cooled, and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America.… A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.”13”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“a marked change occurred between 2019 and 2020. The dual crises of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests ran slam into the twin dangers of Q-Anon and the consolidation of the Trump paramilitary. In 2019, there were sixty-five incidents of domestic terrorism or attempted violence, but in the run-up to the election in 2020, that number nearly doubled, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Twenty-one plots were disrupted by law enforcement.5 Violent extremists in the United States and terrorists in the Middle East have remarkably similar pathways to radicalization. Both are motivated by devotion to a charismatic leader, are successful at smashing political norms, and are promised a future racially homogeneous paradise. Modern American terrorists are much more akin to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) than they are to the old Ku Klux Klan. Though they take offense at that comparison, the similarities are quite remarkable. Most American extremists are not professional terrorists on par with their international counterparts. They lack operational proficiency and weapons. But they do not lack in ruthlessness, targets, or ideology. However, the overwhelming number of white nationalist extremists operate as lone wolves. Like McVeigh in the 1990s and others from the 1980s, they hope their acts will motivate the masses to follow in their footsteps. ISIS radicals who abandon their homes and immigrate to the Syria-Iraq border “caliphate” almost exclusively self-radicalize by watching terrorist videos. The Trump insurgents are radicalizing in the exact same way. Hundreds of tactical training videos easily accessible on social media show how to shoot, patrol, and fight like special forces soldiers. These video interviews and lessons explaining how to assemble body armor or make IEDs and extolling the virtues of being part of the armed resistance supporting Donald Trump fill Facebook and Instagram feeds. Some even call themselves the “Boojahideen,” an English take on the Arabic “mujahideen,” or holy warrior. U.S. insurgents in the making often watch YouTube and Facebook videos of tactical military operations, gear reviews, and shooting how-tos. They then go out to buy rifles, magazines, ammunition, combat helmets, and camouflage clothing and seek out other “patriots” to prepare for armed action. This is pure ISIS-like self-radicalization. One could call them Vanilla ISIS.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The twenty-first-century white supremacy movement hates people of African extraction, immigrants or descendants of the enslaved, and, most of all, Jews. White supremacists commonly refer to Black people as “mud” people or the ever pejorative “nigger.” The most extreme groups say that Black people are only suitable for slavery and/or extermination”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Trump’s personal appeal to this category is almost unprecedented in the United States. No other political leader in American history, except perhaps President Andrew Jackson, has inspired his followers, often without orders, to execute his most extreme policies and express them via terrorism.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The terrorist who conceptualized, built, and delivered the 4,500-pound ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO) bomb detonated at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran. A white supremacist, McVeigh had self-radicalized and devoted his life after his military service to becoming a full-time terrorist. He came to believe that a race war was imminent in the United States and that he had a role to play in starting it.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“On a more nativist note, most adherents believe that Mexican immigrants should not be allowed to enter the United States and have children that can anchor their illegal entry, so-called anchor babies.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Many claim that terrorist Muslims are entering the country solely to birth U.S. citizens that can be groomed and indoctrinated for future terrorist acts. Although according to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security there has never been even one case where this was found to be true,”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The highly restrictive Georgia law was signed by Governor Brian Kemp and included a ridiculous provision that made it illegal to give food or drinks to anyone waiting to vote.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Finchelstein notes that at its inception in the 1930s and 1940s, fascism “fantasized a new reality and then changed the actual one. Thus, they redrew the frontiers between myth and reality. Myth replaced reality with policies aimed at reshaping the world according to the lies racists believed.”14 Trump’s fascism followed this playbook.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“The Trump-worshipping base has become an openly fascist movement.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason’s and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. —Ulysses S Grant”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“lying is a feature of fascism in a way that is not true of those other political traditions.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Can I speak with Pelosi? Yeah, we’re coming for you, bitch! Mike Pence? We’re coming for you too, fucking traitor!”1 A mass of insurrectionists started to chant, “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” They were well aware that a hanging platform with a noose was set up outside the Capitol. For the members of Congress, death was a near thing.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“He complained that the media coverage of the women who stepped forward to allege that he had inappropriately ogled, touched, groped, or assaulted them was an effort to turn women against him and steal votes.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“89 percent believed that the party should follow Trump’s philosophy on economics,”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“demanded the counting be stopped. It worked. The count was stopped and contributed to George W. Bush’s presidential election”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Q-Anon + Trumpism = TITUS”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“Newt Gingrich, Brent Bozell, Bill Bennett, Kenneth Blackwell, Jim DeMint, Ginni Thomas”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“By March 2020, the disease was spreading in America because of Trump’s incompetence.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“likely mentally imbalanced, followers of Trump”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

“In an amazing trick of rhetorical judo, Trump’s crimes were ignored because Clinton was alleged to be a criminal … by Donald Trump.”
― Malcolm W. Nance, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency