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CSUSB professor discusses what led up to the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, and what future may hold
KSFR (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Jan. 19, 2020
Brian Levin, director of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was a guest on the public radio station’s program, Hear & There with Dave Marash, to discuss the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, what led up to it, who participated in it, and what the future may hold concerning the far-right extremist movement.
“I don’t think we’re out of this,” Levin said in response to a question about whether events of Jan. 6 amounted to a coup. “We’re acting as if everything is going to be hunky-dory two weeks from now.” He said the violence did put a temporarily halt to the operation of the federal legislature – the stopping of the certification of the electoral votes for president – and put them and their staff in fear until the riot was quelled.
“I do think it was something more than a statement,” Levin said. “And remember, you know, these beer hall putsches sometimes end up becoming real coups later on.”
Listen to the program at “Brian Levin, Cal State San Bernardino, hate crimes, terrorism and the law.”
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