Not A Single Person Shows For 'Million Militia March,' State-Capital Protests Fail Too

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- National Guardsmen and police shut down most traffic around the U.S. Capitol on Sunday.
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'Not a single person shows up for ‘Million Militia March,’ and state-capital protests fail badly too.' Daily Kos, Jan. 18, '21.

All of the various right-wing “Million”-themed marches that have been organized over the past several years (such as December’s “Million MAGA March”) have fallen well short of the million people they claimed to rally—usually, they number at best in the tens of thousands. But Sunday’s planned “Million Militia March” was a failure of truly epic proportions: It seems no one showed up to march. Not a soul. Similarly, worries about marches on various states’ Capitols around the nation turned out to be groundless when only tiny smatterings of armed militiamen showed up at a few of the events that pro-Donald Trump “Patriots” said they were planning in places such as Columbus, Ohio, and Salem, Oregon.

Both failures suggest that the American radical right is now in utter disarray, at least for the time being.

The plans for the Washington march, coming on the heels of the January 6 insurrection attempt at the Capitol by the same crowd of violent far-right Trump supporters, were supposed to represent a kind of “Round 2” for their attempt to overturn the results of the November election by falsely claiming the vote was riddled with fraud. However, the organizers were surrounded in chaos and incompetence—unable to settle on a date, disagreements over the focus of the march, and claiming the state-capital protests were actually “false flags” organized by the “Deep State” as a way of urging greater attendance. Those same accusations were then laid against them by organizers of the state-level protests.

Attendance was probably also significantly dampened by the wave of arrests of key leading figures in the January 6 insurrection. Major militia groups such as the Oath Keepers and III Percenters are currently the focus of an FBI investigation. Livestreaming alt-right figure Tim “Baked Alaska” Gionet was arrested Saturday for his prominent role in the insurrection. On Saturday, Cuoy Griffin, the New Mexico county commissioner who heads up “Cowboys for Trump,” was arrested for his role participating in the Capitol takeover. Griffin, who was retweeted by Trump in May for saying “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” had also boasted that he intended to bring his guns to Biden’s inauguration.

The chaos resulted in a complete no-show Sunday, exacerbated by the extraordinary security measures now in place around the Capitol in anticipation of Wednesday’s Inauguration for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A RawsMedia tweet Sunday showed the streets around the Capitol Mall completely empty, primarily due to security measures, with not a single peep from any far-right protesters.

The situation at most state capitals was roughly the same, despite the plans announced by angry MAGA fans during the week before:...

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[Blue Owl]

1. Suck on that Donny you fat piece of shit

[Arne]

2. Is it sinking in that they are the bad guys with guns?

[lark]

3. I think it was a fake all along.

IMO it was a plot to keep more national guards at the states and not in DC so the reich wing can have a better chance of overthrowing the government. I am so freaking worried about Wed. the same Pentagon people who refused to help at first are still there and still want drumpf to be president. 1/6 was an inside job and so will be 1/20, I fear.

[Squinch]

4. Don't let the guard down.

[5X]

5. Most of em showed up in DC 1/6 so they are now in hiding. n/t

[Budi]

6. Ha. Where's your big balls now you loud mouthed chicken shit traitors?

Where'd ya all go?

Funny, when the communication was cut off & ya sat there staring at a swift backlash from social media to Corporations in a fast retreet from anything in your name, you all ran & hid in the fringes of society where you came from.

America dares you to show yourselves now you useless schlubs.

Stupid s.o.a.b's.

[Srkdqltr]

7. Probably because NG and other military won't be intimidated by their guns. They only go against

People who are not armed. They wouldn't like being shot at.

[dutch777]

8. They are marching....on their keyboards their little fingers march

This is not surprising. Bullies usually retreat at the first sign of someone actually standing up and pushing back. And the fact that they are dead wrong and there are laws against a bunch of what they want to do and that people are willing to enforce said laws and they may lose their jobs, impact their families and end up in front of a judge and maybe in prison or at least out the money for fines and legal fees; somehow a principled stand, physically anyway, seems less of a good idea than it did two weeks ago.

But I worry about statements like "the American radical right is now in utter disarray, at least for the time being." They may not be in streets, and they were never that organized or united anyway, thank god but I doubt they are in much more disarray than they were a year ago. I keep thinking of them as a deep cut in our body politic. And while we don't see them or hear much from them, we should not assume the wound is healed. It may be healed on the surface but I worry about a deep festering wound that corrupts from within and weakens us. I am very glad for a new administration that I think will be a tonic for many of us and will seek to heal the wounds while also enforcing the rule of law and not looking the other way on prejudice and injustices. Steady hands and clear minds and focus on a making a better future for all, not just for the few and the well connected, can move us forward. We have hope again!

[Gore1FL]

9. I'm still waiting for the 20th to pass. nt

[dweller]

10. MAGA

My Ass Got Arrested

✌🏻

[BlueWavePsych]

11. +1