Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers. The Yale Law-educated Rhodes came to see political and courtroom paths as doomed for keeping Trump in power and the potential invocation of the Insurrection Act as the only viable way. So, the right-wing activist began promoting the Insurrection Act among fellow Oath Keepers, privately and publicly, urging them to also loudly call on Trump to take the extreme step of using the military and citizen militias to remain in office.
Ultimately, his defense attorney noted, Rhodes didn’t enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, nor did he bring weapons with him. Instead, he remained just outside the building while the others can be seen on video joining the mob that surged into the building after police lines collapsed. (POLITICO)
It may be folks who believe that society has doomed them to become a life form living on a self-perceived lower tier of the population. It may be folks who always find reason to blame their own inadequacies on anyone but themselves. It may be the less nurtured, those educated on dogma, bigotry, and fiction. It may be this group of people whose first response is usually claiming victimhood, their second recourse is to accuse others, and somewhere next within their limited range of options is violence, but look closely, it is often someone whose own background had permitted them the finer things in life, a status of preferred education, and the ability to look at the village of doom from some kind of Ivory Tower. (Trump and Hitler were and are neither intellectual hierarchy, but had the savvy of snake oil salesmen and the backing of brilliant people)
Be afraid of STEWART RHODES. He is not a common man or woman. He may play one in real life, but his smarts from Yale Law, and the knowledge that higher education is IMPORTANT to succeed in life, provided the insights to send in his armed Troops to invade the Capitol. Innocent of course, he claims, because he was just standing unarmed, outside. Be afraid of other Right-wing thugs who are smart enough to motivate the cultists, while trying their damnedest to shout fire in the theatre while remaining on the sidewalk outside…people like Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and Ted Cruz, all wealthy, and all very well-educated.
