And you can see the Proud Boys showing off that acronym that they’re sort of, it shows force in the streets,” said Maddow, “including in Washington, D.C., right before Jan. 6th. Four leaders of the Proud Boys, the pro-Trump paramilitary group, were, of course, convicted of seditious conspiracy at the end of last week for their roles in the Jan. 6th attack on Congress. One of those Proud Boys defendants who was just convicted of sedition — he had not just a patch of the ‘right-wing death squad’ acronym like the Allen, Texas shooter had. He had RWDS tattooed on his arm. Which you can see here.”
She went on to note that in federal court in Washington, D.C., Monday, a heavy sentence was handed down against another Jan. 6 attacker.
They don’t just happen to be connected in the news right now. They’re connected. The Buffalo white supremacist mass murder, El Paso white supremacist mass murder, the Pittsburgh Synagogue white supremacist mass murder. Now it appears the Allen, Texas white supremacist mass murder. In a nation recoiling and ashamed and disgusted, there are also these apparent connections, right? Between this bleeding, ragged right-wing mass violence and the bleeding, ragged right-wing edge of politics. The most mainstream possible electoral Republican politics. The most mainstream, most successful right-wing media as well. But also, this former president and his family and his former officials, and the way he is currently running for president again. They’re inviting literal ‘Hitler was right’ outspoken anti-Semites putting Stars of David, Jewish stars on the heads of their enemies, telling people, that’s who we need to be going after. They’re inviting people like that to their events with the highest-ranking former members of their government and it is all happening while that person is running for president again.”