A mole spent years infiltrating right-wing militias, never telling his family or the police. Here’s what he found.
@NewsDesk @ProPublica The infiltration reveals how deeply militias are embedding into mainstream society, highlighting a growing challenge to national security and democratic stability.
It’s a good read and it expanded my understanding of who these people are. Doesn’t explain why, but it’s helpful. They are my neighbors, sadly. They are people who have chosen to consume routine lies, so routine that they can no longer distinguish between obvious lies, likely lies, and possible lies: the more outrageous the more credence they apply. It’s really fucked up.