It’s a good time to read @laurawhitehorn 1990 essay written in year five of her “preventive detention.” She contrasts her incarceration to a host of rightwing insurgents who served far shorter sentences. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/02/25/5-years-in-jail-awaiting-trial/4a4b0528-8060-4bf6-97d4-39fe8a8509b5/

“But more frightening still is the prospect that our nation, instead of solving its deep social problems and injustices, is bartering its most important liberties for a ‘law and order’ non-solution.” @laurawhitehorn, 1990, from preventive detention https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/02/25/5-years-in-jail-awaiting-trial/4a4b0528-8060-4bf6-97d4-39fe8a8509b5/

That “law and order” solution is & always has been the simultaneous crackdown on leftists and BIPOC communities *and* the elevation or non-punishment of reactionaries.

We should see the DOJ-FBI debate about whether to charge 1/6 insurgents—saying they might not have the resources to charge so many people—as a form of mass incarceration. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/justice-department-fbi-debate-not-charging-some-of-the-capitol-rioters/ar-BB1d1Upf

Contrary to those who suggest either “the Right is weak” or an equivocation btw Left and Right political militancy, we see now, as we could in 1990 & many points before & between, that the state views rightwing insurgents as either ally or inconvenience. And this fuels the Right.

That is also why we don’t need new punitive measures to deal with those who attacked the Capitol. The response must be driven by antifascism & antiracism, not counterterrorism.