Going through my footage from the Capitol riot and remembering how omnipresent anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric was.

Here a mob badgers cops arriving on the scene:

“Stop defending the CCP!”

“Y’all are working for Chinese agents. You’re working for a foreign power.”

“You wait and see how good you do under communist China. They’ll hold your families hostage.”

This was far from the only time I heard hysteria of a Chinese takeover openly entertained that day.

Among a mob berating a Capitol Hill local for arguing the election wasn’t stolen was this rage-aholic who brought up his own experience “escaping” communism out of the blue

Anti-communism is America’s national religion, and anti-China hysteria is a bipartisan project, marketed to the right as a threat to US culture and sovereignty, and to liberals through human rights propaganda. It ultimately moves US politics to the right, as it’s intended to do.

The 2017 liberal “March for Truth” was aimed at defending the establishment, not violently interfering with government functions, but it’s worth noting how participants similarly spouted anti-communist & Cold War hysteria to attack their domestic enemies