I also read that he had strong anti LGBT views. I bet if you wanted to dig far enough (it wouldn’t be hard) you’d find he’d have interesting views on race mixing, women’s roles, and immigration. Anyone want to bet he likely had paranoid views on “globalist elites” who were controlling everything? There’s a pretty clear pattern emerging from these radicalized right wing assassins and mass shooters. Which is why right wing media is trying so hard to flood the zone with **** so they can Seth Rich this assassination.
Just look at what fellow Utah Mormon and senator Mike Lee is doing:
View: https://bsky.app/profile/aselrod.bsky.social/post/3lro6pwkmtc2j
You just don’t see this on the left. You don’t see a concerted propaganda apparatus and senators doing this type of disinformation.
This deserves a second look. It was attacked at the time because the right didn’t find these facts to be convenient. But so much of our current situation is based on this problem and this problem alone; the radicalization of the American right. I saw it first hand here in Utah when Obama was first elected. Suddenly parents didn’t want their children to watch the president’s address to school children. Suddenly I noticed an increase in racist comments and jokes. Suddenly people wanted to see the birth certificate of the president, something never before requested. Wonder why? Suddenly the tea party movement came About.
One of the foremost experts on domestic terrorism, Daryl Johnson began his career as a civilian in the U.S. Army and has held several government positions, most recently as a senior analyst at the Department of Homeland Security. In 2009, he wrote an internal Homeland Security report warning that right-wing extremism was on the rise in the US. When the report leaked, the political backlash was immediate and the report was retracted. In 2012, he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism. He is now the owner of DT Analytics, a private consulting firm for law enforcement, academia, and other organizations, and the author of Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America’s Extremist Heart (Prometheus Books, 2019) and Right-Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorism Threat Is Being Ignored (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
