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I know how extremist groups work and what happened at the Capitol was nothing new

Extremist groups have been preparing for the next "American revolution" for years, so the attacks on the Capitol came as no surprise for people like me, writes Zach Gardner.

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bml00 said:

Biden has not got a dogs chance to win , Trumps standing is all about the backlash tithe Obama years when America was perceived rightly or wrongly as weakening.

"There really is no white backlash, because that gives the impression that the nation had decided it was going to solve this problem and then there was a step back because of developments in the civil rights movement. Now, the fact is that America has been backlashing on the civil rights question for centuries now… The backlash is merely the surfacing of prejudices, of hostilities, of hatreds and fears that already existed and they are just now starting to open."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Seventh Annual Gandhi Memorial Lecture," Howard University, Washington, D.C., (11/6/1966)