'Stop the Steal' fueled white fears about their country being stolen

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/11/opinion/stop-steal-fueled-white-fears-about-their-country-being-stolen/

After he was acquitted for murder, J.W. Milam explained why he killed Emmett Till.

Milam would have found communion with the white mob that breached the Capitol.

“Stop the Steal,” the slogan of the deadly insurrection, wasn’t only a reference to a lawless president’s lie about an election he lost by more than seven million votes. It wasn’t just about who governs America but about the insidious fear of many white people that a nation they believe was built by and for them is being stolen away. For more than 150 years, they’ve tried to avert that “steal” by any means necessary.

That period never ended. A recent survey by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, found that nearly 40 percent of Republicans support politically motivated violence. Daniel Cox, director of AEI’s Survey Center on American Life, told NPR, “I think any time you have a significant number of the public saying use of force can be justified in our political system, that’s pretty scary.”