Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently
storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction
in Washington D.C.. Instead, I wondered who was watching in Belgrade,
Bratislava, and Budapest. Many, in the past few days, have compared the sacking of the
Capitol to events Americans unthinkingly
associate with faraway
countries with inferior
democratic values. I thought of these places for a
different reason: because I knew that neo-Nazis and white supremacists waiting
in the wings around the globe would see the events in Washington as proof that
they, too, could violently seize power when the time came. Wednesday showed
them that their fantasies of waging a race …read more
Source:: The New Republic
