The Fear of the Rightwing White Supremacists...
Hundreds of people in a pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol on Jan. 6. The political scientist Robert Jason Andrew for The New York Times Pape set out to find what motivated them. So, it really is about those white folks being ascared of losing the white priviledge that they are so accustomed to. Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population were the most likely to produce insurrectionists. NYT - When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession. But instead he found something very different: Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears tha...