num_pages: 543
description: The strange and terrible tale of the far rights long war on American democracy . . . From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s to the shocking January 6 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the Patriot movement. So how did we get here? Award-winning journalist David Neiwert  who been following the rise of these extremist groups since the late 1970s when he was a young reporter in Idaho  explores how the movement was built over decades how it was set aflame by Donald Trump and his cohorts and how it will continue to attack American democracy for the foreseeable future. Neiwert especially studies how the Pacific Northwest has long been a breeding ground of extremist violence from the time when neo-nazis migrated to the area from southern California in the 1970s through the great battles in Portland and Seattle and neighboring towns over the last decade. Laying out how these groups organize their terroristic violence and attacks on democratic institutions at every levelincluding local state and federal targetsNeiwert details what their strategies and plans look like for the foreseeable future.
language: English
title: The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
publisher: Melville House