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“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.
“There is an enemy, in both cases, in low places. That would be Communists in the early ‘50s. The equivalent is non-White voters today. Groups that the predominantly White majority of Americans are suspicious of,” said Mr. Gerstle, a historian at the University of Cambridge and author of “Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present.”
The enemies in low places are, according to the conspiracy theories, aided by the powerful. Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s paranoia spared noone, not even Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. Mr. Trump directed his allegations of an election conspiracy at such influential forces as “radical Democrats” and the “fake news media,” among others.
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Proud Boy charged with pepper spraying police during Capitol riot contracts Covid in jail
Christopher Worrell’s diagnosis was revealed during an appeal of a federal judge’s decision to reject his bid for release.
A person wearing Proud Boy colors at right marches with supporters of President Donald Trump on Nov. 14, 2020, in Washington. | AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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A member of the Proud Boys charged with pepper spraying a line of police officers at the Capitol is urging a federal appeals court panel to free him from pretrial detention, citing a Covid-19 diagnosis he received while being held in a Washington, D.C., jail.
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An alleged Proud Boy accused of pepper spraying police during the Capitol riot has asked to be released from custody, saying he has contracted COVID-19 while in the D.C. Jail.
In an appeal filed Thursday asking for his release, Christopher Worrell’s attorney says his client suffers from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is at increased risk of serious complications from the coronavirus.
“The current unsanitary conditions in the D.C. jails place Mr. Worrell in grave danger given his weakened immune system,” attorney Allen H. Orenberg in an emergency appeal to the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.