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Jan. 6 and the Age of Extremism

What exactly happened on Jan. 6, 2021? Right-wing-extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss argues in a Foreign Affairs essay that it was the day extremism found a home in the mainstream of American politics.
 
“The majority of the rioters were hitherto ordinary Americans who had only recently embraced radical ideas,” Miller-Idriss writes. “Their pathways to political violence ... were shaped by a propaganda campaign that engulfed the full spectrum of right-wing politics: from Republican elected officials, prominent conservative commentators, and conservative-leaning major news outlets to newly minted social media influencers, minor radical organizations, and a burgeoning group of far-right niche media ventures.”
 
Not only did fringe ideas go mainstream in the lead-up to Jan. 6, they’ve been spreading in new and unexpected ways for some time, Miller-Idriss writes. As memes have replaced manifestos, bits of mis- or disinformation can be taken up la carte. “Thus a self-described ‘Bolshevik’ white supremacist group calls for the liquidation of the capitalist class, ... QAnon spreads through yoga studios and alternative medicine communities, and antigovernment militias join forces with left-leaning antivaccine groups to protest restrictions and mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Miller-Idriss writes, warning that our political-information era is plagued by “metastasizing extremism.”
 
A year later, we’re still confronting such trends. As The New York Times editorial board writes trenchantly, “every day is Jan. 6 now,” as Trump’s false claims continue to be believed—and to be relitigated through state-level legislative fights over election procedures. (Agreement on Jan. 6 itself can be hard to come by: The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board chides others for calling it an “insurrection,” while former GOP strategist Karl Rove writes on the same opinion page of Republicans’ responsibility to renounce it.)
 
Comfortingly, The Economist suggests we may not relive Jan. 6 forever. Moving on from it requires a “Republican renewal,” the magazine writes—for GOP officials, pundits, and voters to reject Trump’s false election claims—offering that “[t]o presume” patriotic and well-intentioned Republicans “can be permanently treated as dupes would be a mistake.”