Leah Sottile on Bundyville and American Radicalism
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🗓️ 12 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
At his rally in Minneapolis earlier this week, President Trump received voluntary security from an unexpected source: the Oathkeepers, a far-right militia associated with the white supremacy movement. This isn’t the first time that the Trump administration has crossed paths with such groups, which have become more active in recent years.
To learn more about these groups, Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson recently spoke with journalist Leah Sottile, who is the host of the podcast Bundyville, which does a deep dive on America’s far-right militia movement. Together, they discussed these groups’ origins and ideologies—and what they can tell us about homegrown radicalization in modern-day America.
Leah Sottile’s podcast Bundyville is produced in cooperation with Oregon Public Broadcasting and Longreads.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:55.6 | Ep 하루 |
| 1:25.6 | In 2014 the government says all right we're gonna come take the cows as payment |
| 1:30.3 | You know like a repossession |
| 1:32.4 | Well, Clive and takes to the right wingedia, you know internet media |
| 1:37.4 | Starts going to malicious and saying they're coming to get me. They're coming to take my cow |
| 1:42.3 | I was they're coming to kill my family and we need your help |
| 1:45.8 | So it's sort of this miraculous event where people show up from all over the country |
| 1:51.9 | I mean, I'm talking New Hampshire Arizona, Nevada, Oregon. I mean there are people Montana |
| 1:58.8 | That come there to protect this rancher and what they see as a show of tyrannical force of the government |
| 2:05.5 | So what what ended up happening is that the Bureau of Land Management agents there that came to get the cows found themselves |
| 2:12.9 | Surrounded on all sides by people that were heavily armed |
| 2:17.6 | I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the Lawfare podcast |
| 2:21.9 | October 12th, 2019 at his rally in Minneapolis earlier this week |
| 2:27.5 | President Trump received voluntary security from an unexpected source the oath keepers a far-right militia |
| 2:34.4 | associated with the white supremacy movement |
| 2:37.2 | Nor is this the first time that the Trump administration has crossed paths with such groups which would become more active in recent years |
| 2:44.1 | To learn more about these groups Lawfare senior editors Scott R Anderson |
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