The oath keepers are not marketing themselves as white nationalists or white supremacis. Their focus is more on government tyranny and their rhetoric starts getting very heated in the summer of 20 20, around the george floyd protests. And then its s from there to embracing trumps lies about the election being stolen, and then setting up the idea of january sixth as a last stand for the country.
Extremists in the right-wing militant organization known as the Oath Keepers are present in law enforcement and in the military. Now, thanks to reporting from ProPublica’s Isaac Arnsdorf, we know they’re in the government, too.
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