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Wise Use Echoes

The rhetoric and ideology of today's right-wing extremism mirrors that of a lesser-known anti-public lands movement of the 1990s

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Jan 15, 2021
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Like millions of people from around the globe, I watched the images of coup-pawns invading the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with shock, rage, and sadness. But, like many others, I wasn’t surprised. After all, almost exactly five years earlier we had been transfixed and alarmed by another violent attack on an American institution, the occupation of the Malheur…

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