Riot at US Capitol was unprecedented, but white extremist groups are growing, experts say
President Trump and the mob he incited at the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the congressional electoral vote count has laid bare the threat of political violence in the United States and thrust the American democratic experiment to a perilous pass.
Political scholars and historians say that while this act of insurrection, spurred on by the president himself, has no national precedent, it stems from a long history of white supremacy and far-right extremism, and could erupt into further violence.
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