I applaud this bold courageous and brilliant entrance by Devin into the cultural fray. A chilling picture emerges from his depiction of a far Right patriotism manqué further complicated by blurred lines within associations as that of the Boogaloo denizens who wildly range from racially conscientious to racist white supremacists. The complexity of the whence and why of the gun movement needs more such profound scholarship and cultural critique. Devin's allusion to January 6 reminds it is just around the corner in more ways than a matter of a few weeks' recurrence, with bloody roots in the McVeigh assault on the Murragh Federal Building packed with victims; and that massive violence he correctly sees as a kind of second act to the American tragedy of the Civil War and Booth's assassination of Lincoln.
I applaud this bold courageous and brilliant entrance by Devin into the cultural fray. A chilling picture emerges from his depiction of a far Right patriotism manqué further complicated by blurred lines within associations as that of the Boogaloo denizens who wildly range from racially conscientious to racist white supremacists. The complexity of the whence and why of the gun movement needs more such profound scholarship and cultural critique. Devin's allusion to January 6 reminds it is just around the corner in more ways than a matter of a few weeks' recurrence, with bloody roots in the McVeigh assault on the Murragh Federal Building packed with victims; and that massive violence he correctly sees as a kind of second act to the American tragedy of the Civil War and Booth's assassination of Lincoln.