'AN ACT OF TERROR' — Packages sent to 7+ targets, CNN, Obamas, Clintons, Soros, Cuomo, Holder, Maxine Waters

I’d change that to “college credentialed” (h/t Jane Jacobs), but otherwise that is the profile. However, the alt-right is quickly finding affinities and merge points with the “old-right”, including establishment conservatives (e.g. the Proud Boys at the NYC Republican Club) and the militia and sovereign-citizen and Bundy types. That latter group tends to have fewer college degrees and tends to do blue-collar or farm work (or at least affects it while really being land owners).

If there’s a common connective tissue metastasising between all of these various groups*, it’s a combination of racial entitlement, sexism, and capital-L Libertarianism. A white atheist incel techie with a CS degree working in SV and a MAGA-screaming white Xtianist high school dropout with a wife and several mistresses who just lost his factory job in the midwest would have those three things in common.

[* beyond money from right-wing billionaires, as @RickMycroft notes above]

As with Walter White, the answer to that question is “he was always an arsehole.”

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