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The future of political violence in America might get worse before it gets better.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Even though it was Halloween, two political extremists were unmasked yesterday, one on each coast,

and what they said tells us a lot about the future of political violence in America.

In Washington, at the Oathkeeper trial, Graydon Young, who was the first Oathkeeper to plead

guilty to charges related to storming Congress back on January 6th, broke down in

tears as he apologized for his role. He said, I guess I was acting like a traitor against my

own government. And in San Francisco, an FBI agent who specializes in investigations of domestic

terrorism, that is, primarily Americans who commit violent criminal acts in furtherance

of their political or social ideology, filed a criminal complaint against David Wayne DePoppy,

in which we learned the horrific details of the attack on Paul Pelosi.

We tend to think of the oathkeepers and groups like it as the face of political extremism

and violence in America.

But domestic political terrorists are increasingly more like DePopi.

The big trend is what terrorism researchers call ungrouping, in which individuals need no formal

organization to recruit and indoctrinate them with fringe ideas when they have easy access

to them online, and major political figures endorsing them.

Both Young and DePoppy radicalized quickly.

Young became obsessed with post-election conspiracy theories back in November 2020, and was

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