Capitol Shame

This is NOT about social media being held accountable (I think there's already a thread about that). This is about those right-wing extremistic groups and what they've been up to so far, and what might still come.

I listen to the PBS Frontline Dispatch Podcast (*), the latest episode is Chaos at the Capitol (direct link).
It paints a very dark picture, but it's important to stay informed about these - groups and their actions. Recommended, there's also a transcript:
Quote:

A thing that we've seen since Charlottesville is that the overt white supremacist movement has faded into the background. And this ultra-nationalist movement, which is the sort of broad coalition we saw in D.C. has come to the fore. And that includes people who came from the white supremacist movement, but maybe are no longer quite so obvious about that. That includes anti-Muslim groups, anti-immigrant groups, super hardcore, Second Amendment groups, and super hardcore Trump supporters. And so that's the sort of far right movement that has the energy now. And those people as a general rule, are less worried about hiding their identities than the hardcore neo-nazis and white supremacists. ...we saw members of the Proud Boys which is sort of a ultra-nationalist street fighting outfit that has come to real prominence in the last several months and is sort of leading the vanguard of the violent edge of the Trump movement. So their members were there, we saw members of a group called America First also known as the Groypers, which is another sort of ultra-nationalist outfit that has a podcast and does a lot of very online organizing and is an anti-semitic, borderline white-nationalist outfit, we saw the Oathkeepers, who are a patriot-militia type group who have been talking about civil war for years. And they've been talking about having to overthrow repressive governments for years. We saw QAnon supporters and QAnon is the sort of vast, insane conspiracy that posits that Joe Biden is a member of a sort of satanic cabal of child abusers. And so those were some of the kind of characters that breached the Capitol.

(*) aside: It's sad how they need to beg for donations thrice in 25min, and sell their souls to the app stores. It seems that public broadcasting in the US of NA has been un-funded so thoroughly over time, they're depending on whatever they can get from foundations, private donors etc.... no wonder people perceive it as being biased towards the left.
It's no comparison to public broadcasting in, say, the UK, or Germany, or Finland.
It seems there's really no independent media in the USA? Of course independence is always partial, but this is bad.