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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Put simply, those who stormed the Capitol, as I wrote in a piece for FiveThirtyEight the day of the insurrection, they didn't merely come in defense of Donald Trump; they came in defense of white supremacy and white Americans' hold on power, and a hold on power that is not in competition with other racial groups.
  These are groups who have long held these ideologies, who on the day of the insurrection led the charge, and who, if only - if not for luck that we had that day, would have carried out, I think, even more violence in service of protecting and defending Donald Trump's legacy, but also in holding up the mantle of white supremacy and white nationalism.
  I think what I want people to leave this moment thinking about is: What are those other instances of racial backlash that we have experienced in this country or are experiencing in this country? Republican attacks on the right to vote, a racial backlash.
  
  
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context: It’s always been around but it really got going with the rise of the Tea Party in 2010 as a reaction to a black man being elected POTUS. >
  
  The white backlash started after Obama, when racist Americans elected the first person (Donald Trump and his dad) to be sued by Nixon's DOJ in 1973 for violating the Civil Rights Act's Fair Housing Act, for refusing to rent to Black people. >
  
  After Obama won, Republicans in my podunk hometown lynched and burned Obama effigies on the courthouse lawn.
  White guys used to come into the Walmart I worked at when I did gun sales and talk about needing to hoard ammo to shoot "n-words" because Obama was coming to kill white conservatives.
  They all swore, and still swear, they aren't racist though. >
  
  Are you in the Greater Houston area, because this sounds like 100% of the machinist shops I did repair work in...
  Only, there was never an "n-word" self censoring or an attempt to look left and right. These people fully, absolutely believe that the greatest American pastime is the Jasper Drag Race. >
  
  Republicans are dominated by White Protestant male conservatives. Of course it's racist. A desperate attempt to prolong a faded power structure dating back to the Puritans.