On Trump’s cabal of extremists

If these fanatical white supremacists, anti-Semites, and nut jobs see something in Trump that they absolutely adore, shouldn’t sane people question their own association with that same leader?

A mob of Trump supporters breached Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. While symbolizing a white-supremacist ideology, Confederate flags were in no way the most offensive items brazenly flaunted by the Trumpist mob, writes Scott Taylor. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 11, 2021

OTTAWA—Watching the events of Jan. 6 in the U.S. capital play out in real time was an almost sickening experience. I watched in horror as President Donald Trump addressed a massive throng of his devoted loyalists. Instead of deflating the crowd, Trump fired them up with fury. He vowed to never co...

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