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The Far-Right is Rising - Part III: The Road to January 6th with Garrett Graff

The Lincoln Project

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The Debacle of Randy Weaver

Garrett Bellini: Waco has a little bit of personal resonance for me because I was a junior in high school when that went down. They roll televisions into our classrooms, Garrett, as this happens and a bunch of 17 year olds in Spanish class watch this thing burn to the ground. It was bananas. And you know, as you say, this really poorly handled shootout and siege on Ruby Ridge a year before the Waco siege is terribly terribly bad. He says it's actually a very conscious decision by the leaders of the White Power movement in the early 1990s that are basically like if we take all of the stuff that we believe and sort of downplay the naked white supremacy

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