Trumpism Echoes Right-Wing Icon Timothy McVeigh

Monday, April 21, 2025

In the thirty years since the Oklahoma City bombing, the country took an extraordinary journey -- from nearly universal horror at the action of a right-wing extremist [McVeigh] to wide embrace of a president who reflected the bomber's values.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 11:30 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

The Oklahoma City bombing took place 30 years ago today. It was inspired in part by a horrific novel that brought together white supremacists around the country. Here's a piece I wrote about it a couple of years ago: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/white-suprem ...

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"a long tradition of gun-obsessed, antidemocratic, violence-fueled extremism".

POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

In a nutshell.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-17 09:40 AM

antidemocratic

REINHEITSGEBOT

Democracy has always violated their red-necked "common sense" view on human societies

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-17 09:42 AM

#1: Or "in a gun shell."

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-17 05:09 PM

Timothy McVeigh was stopped by a state trooper because he had no license tag on his car. He was arrested because he had a firearm in his possession, and told the trooper as much. In 2025, that same Okiehomie state trooper would have given him a ticket and allowed him to go on his way. Think about it. A mass murderer would have been let loose by a law enforcement officer, even with a handgun in his possession...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-22 08:19 AM

MAGA has always been a domestic terrorist cult.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-22 08:29 AM

Timothy McVeigh: a MAGAt before his time.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-22 08:45 AM

MAGAts here were defending and justifying McVeigh's OKC terrorist attack just the other day ...

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-22 11:25 AM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

so hitler wasn't enough for you dopes ??

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-22 06:08 PM

Hitler isn't enough for you dopes, is the problem.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-22 06:09 PM