To the editor: Whereas all the things UC Davis professor Garen Wintemute writes about political violence is correct and regarding, personally I don’t fear an excessive amount of about an precise overthrow of the federal government, assuming Vice President Kamala Harris wins in November.
Sure, there could also be skirmishes and violence from some members of militia teams, however there’s a large distinction between now and 2021.
Donald Trump will not be the president and doesn’t have entry to the levers of energy he did on Jan. 6, 2021. Joe Biden is president, and I firmly consider he’s getting ready for this, and any “revolt” will shortly be put down.
The militia members discuss an enormous sport, however they’re cowards at coronary heart. When confronted with the overwhelming may of U.S. forces commanded by rational officers and a rational president, they’ll again down and flee.
Scott Hughes, Westlake Village
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To the editor: A analysis crew at UC Davis studies that greater than 40% of the Proud Boys and militia supporters it surveyed thought that “having a powerful chief for America [was] extra vital than having a democracy.”
That was the scariest assertion about American politics I had ever heard — till the subsequent sentence, after which the subsequent one and so forth, culminating within the discovering that “almost 20% of Proud Boys supporters and 28% of militia supporters mentioned that they had been very or utterly keen to kill somebody to advance an vital political goal.”
What’s even scarier is that the person who could be president has performed nothing and isn’t anticipated to do something to dissuade this.
Larry Macedo, West Hills