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'The Storm Is Here:' War Reporter Luke Mogelson on U.S. Right-Wing Militias, Jan. 6 and Trump
This clip is from the Sept. 14, 2022 broadcast.
The New Yorker’s award-winning war correspondent Luke Mogelson speaks about his new book, "The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible." The book gives an eyewitness account of right-wing extremism and growing civic unrest in the U.S. since 2020, starting with anti-lockdown protests in Michigan and culminating in the January 6 insurrection. Mogelson, who filmed the attack on the U.S. Capitol, says many of the right-wing rioters viewed the insurrection "not as a political act but as something taking place in a more timeless, kind of cosmic spiritual framework."
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