In the very first year of this blog, which coincided with Barack Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, I wrote a lot about the vague feeling of wildness out in the land that attended all the events of the campaign. Like many people, I felt that a lot of it had to do with our having elected a Black man as president. But because I had been reading and studying a lot about the militia movement, I knew that the wildness predated Obama's rise to the presidency, that it was fed by lunatic conspiratorial beliefs and a fringe form of American Protestantism that had taken to guns and the woods at the same time. It needed a target and, in the long view, Obama really was only a temp worker. The wildness was beginning to organize itself, and its target was the entire democratic-republican governmental system. |
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