The myths of the founding embraced by the Tea Party are perhaps the most sustaining force in the imaginary of the contemporary far right. Exploring this paradox can both help us understand the trajectory of the contemporary right and better think through principles and strategies to combat it. As this divide grows, the most ardent opponents of voting rights, social protest, and teaching the history and present of racial domination in our schools act in the name of the insurrectionary energy of the American Revolution. The United States is currently in a moment of intense political division. politics, one that launched an assault on the American political system itself, seeking to negate the will of the voters in the 2020 presidential election.īut to treat the movement that gave rise to the insurrection as alien to American politics and culture would be to miss something crucial about what animates its partisans and makes them dangerous.
Theirs was the national vanguard of a growing anti-democratic force in U.S. The testimony of the Capitol Police, presented during the dramatic first day of House hearings on the January 6 insurrection, confirmed the most dire liberal assumptions about the rioters: They were rageful, vicious, and in some cases clearly driven by racial animus.
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