Rachel Maddow Raises An Fascinating Query About Anti-LGBTQ Extremists And Infrastructure Sabotage

Rachel Maddow identified that the identical weekend that white nationalist teams have been protesting in opposition to LGBTQ occasions somebody shot up an influence station within the county the place one of many occasions was happening.

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Rachel #Maddow “Simply as a neighborhood drag present that they have been protesting began up, somebody shot up the ability stations and minimize energy to the entire county. Sure, understandably folks domestically instantly began asking the sheriff if that was the rationale why.” pic.twitter.com/0yk74Qv6Ia

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 6, 2022

Maddow mentioned:

So when Moore County, North Carolina, was host this Saturday to a different certainly one of these far proper anti-gay, anti-trans protests after which simply as a neighborhood drag present that they have been protesting began up, somebody shot up the ability stations and minimize energy to the entire county.

Sure, understandably folks domestically instantly began asking the sheriff if that was the rationale why, if there was a connection. Now, the sheriff has mentioned repeatedly that he has no thought if the assault on the ability stations is linked to these anti-gay, anti-trans protests. There actually isn’t any indication both method. The sheriff says he has no thought a couple of motive of any sort. No suspects, no person claiming any accountability, nobody in custody.

Somebody has dedicated at greatest an act of sabotage in opposition to the ability provide. At worst, it was an act of home terror.

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It isn’t a coincidence that on the identical weekend that anti-government extremists and neo-nazis present as much as protest in a North Carolina county, the ability grid will get shot up.

Rachel Maddow didn’t say that it was the extremists who shot up the ability grid as a result of there is no such thing as a proof to counsel both method, however the energy grid wasn’t shot up earlier than the right-wing extremists confirmed up, after which it was.

Proper-wing threats didn’t cease after 1/6. The truth is, the state of affairs has gotten worse, and at a time when there’s a lot happening, this drawback is value monitoring.

Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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