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

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…