The Atlantic is kind of a curious place to publish research that should be subject to peer review but a couple of professors have published an analysis there that they believe shows that arrestees so far in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill coup attempt are generally not white supremacists but rather garden variety middle class Trumpsters with no known connections to right-wing extremist groups. Arrests, they acknowledge, are ongoing,[1] which means this study is essentially of the low-hanging fruit, the folks who’ve already been identified and arrested. This is a picture that might change as investigations continue and more folks are arrested and charged. The authors say they Read more
- [1]Robert A. Pape and Keven Ruby, “The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists,” Atlantic, February 2, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/the-capitol-rioters-arent-like-other-extremists/617895/↩