Cruelty has long been a central part of US politics and who's defined as American and who isn't [cnn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 7/2/214:00 AM

By Brandon Tensley, CNN Politics, July 1, 2021

"They're shooting at us. They're supposed to shoot BLM, but they're shooting the patriots."

That was one of the Trump-supporting insurrectionists who laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6 in a deadly attempt to overturn the election that secured the White House for Joe Biden.

She was expressing a sentiment that many Trumpists share: that the US belongs to Donald Trump (who at the time of the Capitol riot was still in the White House) and his overwhelmingly White disciples.

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