Groups like Bugaloo Bois and Proud Boys are calling that date "Round 2."
Another group, Cowboys for Trump, is warning, "there will blood flowing from that building."
Even more ominously, these groups have even taken to denouncing Trump after he appeared to balk at the January 6 seizure of the Capitol.
Yes, indeed, there was a certain farcical rag-tag element to the crowds that took over the Congressional buildings this week. Who can forget the QAnon "shaman" guy wearing the buffalo headdress? There were also other amusing aspects like protesters taking selfies and milling around as if on a badly-organized public tour.
But dismiss the political situation in the US right now at your peril. There are millions of Americans who truly believe -- thanks in part to Trump's incessant, delusional lying, and also to rightwing media echo chambers -- that their democratic rights have been violated by an elite cabal or "deep state." That's not to deny the existence of a "deep state." There certainly are unelected forces at work in the US which decide who is allowed to become president and who is not.
The fact of millions of heavily armed and trained militia who are convinced they are in an existential struggle to "save American democracy" is a real and present danger. The events on January 6 are perhaps best described as an "unfinished coup." It has emboldened further daring. The perceived sell-out by Trump only adds enragement.
If things get out of hand on January 20, then we will see the deep state mobilizing. And then, in that case, fascism will have come to the US in the name of "anti-fascism."
America is on a dangerous slippery slope.
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