Introduction

Last month on a bright day in the Capitol, President Biden used a phrase that no previous President had used in an inaugural address. These words were delivered in the very spot where just one week earlier, a mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol at the behest of President Donald Trump. The riot was not exclusively a white supremacist event, but it did bring together extremists from a wide array of white nationalist and white supremacist groups. Many openly carrying flags and symbols in support of their movements. One of the most haunting images of that day was that of the Confederate flag being lofted in the halls of the Capitol building.