A Pennsylvania Mothers Path to Insurrection
How claims by Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones spurred a parent of eight to become one of the Capitol riots biggest mysteries, and a fugitive from the F.B.I.
By Ronan Farrow
The New Yorker
February 2, 2021
Link:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot
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Last summer and fall, Powell said, she attended various protests, including anti-mask rallies. If there was a protest in Harrisburg, I was there for almost all of them, she told me. On July 4th, she drove for four hours to join members of several far-right groups, some of them armed, who gathered at the Gettysburg National Military Park, purportedly to protect Civil War monuments from desecration.
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At the July 4th demonstration in Gettysburg, Powell met Kevin Lynn, the founder of a group that advocates for the hiring of American workers in the U.S. technology industry. Last August, after Lynns group placed ads pressing Trump to restrict the outsourcing of jobs overseas, Lynn met with Trump at the White House. Lynn told me that he had attended the Gettysburg protest to document the event, and that he interviewed several participants, including Powell. Afterward, the two stayed in touch. I would say were friends, he said. Before Trumps Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C., Powell told Lynn that she planned to attend, and they agreed to go together. On January 5th, Powell and Lynn met near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and drove to Washington in his car. At least two other friends, the owners of the bookstore where Powell works, drove in another car.
The article provides and excellent review on how she became radicalized. A while back, she was a fence-riding liberal but with strongly held libertarian thoughts, which appears to be the root cause of her transformation. She is rabidly anti-mask and anti-statue removal - therefore racist and staunchly libertarian.
KY..........