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As president, in Helsinki in July 2018, Trump deferred to Putin in public and met with him in private, without close aides. But Covid’s reach, its origins in China and the US government’s response played into the movement’s distrust of institutions and simple fear of foreigners. And worse. Sommer records how QAnon adherents defiantly flouted Covid public health rules, then died. Mary Murray, for one, isn’t ready to put her flag up yet. The retired teacher, 63, grew up on a farm in Kansas, with Democratic parents who were involved in civil rights and instilled a particular interpretation of American values. When her sisters went off to college, her parents would invite their friends from overseas to stay at their farm for the holidays. “I was raised to believe the American flag stood for compassion,” she told me. QAnon SYMBOL DETAILS: The letter ‘Q’ (Photo illustration by Daron Taylor/The Washington Post; photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
The Post reported that Trump also praised Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, for having “total control” of his country.What makes Johns’ American flag so perfect for this charged, climactic moment? Well, this is an anxious image of the nation fraying. But to fully understand this work, you need to follow Johns’ very personal interpretations of the flag over nearly 70 years. It's sort of ‘We're just goofing around, right?’ Like the Proud Boys saying ‘We're just a drinking club.’ Right.” The use of historical imagery functions both as a dog whistle to fellow white supremacists, and as a convenient out when dealing with people who don’t share their views, says Gabriele. “They're hoping that either other observers will get it and they'll agree. Or if they don't agree and if there's consequences, they can just shrug it off like, ‘Oh, I'm just referencing history‘ or something like that.”
The man livestreaming the event moves through the crowd at the Capitol saying “support your local Proud Boys.” There’s a picture circulating online right now of a small pleasure boat at rest on the bottom of a clear lake. A flagpole appears to shoot up from the boat, with a bright-red Trump 2020 flag gently aflutter, purportedly in the currents of Texas’s Lake Travis, where, at a Donald Trump boat parade this past Saturday, several boats sank in the wakes of boats said to belong to other Trump supporters. This, we know, actually happened. The photo, though, is a fake. You can tell because the boat is only flying one Trump flag. Perhaps as a result of the tea party movement, several state governments around the country offer a Gadsden flag license plate design. At least some of those plates charge additional fees for the special plate, sending proceeds to nonprofit organizations.
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From our historical moment, the rise and fall of President Richard Nixon looks like a modest dress rehearsal for Trump’s assault on democratic norms. Nixon had mobilised what he called a conservative “silent majority” against the perceived dangers of Vietnam war protests. Trump openly praises his supporters for apparently trying to run Joe Biden’s bus off the road. Why does a red, white and blue-striped flag sound so familiar? Oh, Russia. It’s the Russian flag. Donald Trump was colouring the Russian flag. Nothing to worry about here. Everyone move on. As bipartisan pressure mounted on Trump to respond, he called on rioters to be “peaceful” and “go home” but did so while repeating his false claim that the election was stolen from him and told the mob, “we love you.” A week later, the president has publicly refused any responsibility for his rhetoric and when pressed on Tuesday, he claimed his comments were “totally appropriate.” CNN spoke with him to identify the symbols and understand the chilling messages of tyranny, white supremacy, anarchy, racism, anti-Semitism and hatred they portray. When Carr was in the eleventh grade, in Georgia, he dropped out of school and ran away: “I didn’t like home life. I had four sisters—I couldn’t get along with anybody.” Enlisting in the Army straightened him out. “If I hadn’t went into the Army I’d probably be in a chain gang somewhere—in prison or something—because I was mean.”
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