I Don’t Want A War With White People

Last week’s white nationalist violent attempt to overthrow the US Government is a defining moment in U.S. history. The coup attempt was planned online — Facebook, Parler, Reddit, 8Chann, and other message boards — and was designed to assassinate the line of succession — Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in an ill-fated attempt to allow lame-duck president Trump to retain power and stay in office.

The televised scene of tens of thousands of mostly white, mostly male, Trump supporters storming the Capitol and quickly overrunning the few Capitol police who tried to do their jobs, shocked the country and world while showing the fragility of “The Great American Democracy Experiment.”

Reminiscent of other destabilized countries, the scene unfolded like a horror or zombie movie, with thousands of domestic terrorists forcing or being escorted by police into the Capitol and wrecking unbelievable damage on the very seat of American intellectual and deliberative power.