On Monday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, anchor decided to publish a news report by Brandy Zadrozny (leftist internet gossip reporter) maligning conservatives concerned about local issues.
Holt opened the segment by reminding viewers that it was Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol: “This week marks one year since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Since the Jan 6th riot, domestic extremists changed strategies. Brandy Zadrozny explains how in our series state of extremism.” Zadgrozny’s segment opened with footage of the rioters chanting “stop the steal”, a reference to the belief the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump.
Zadrozny then aired a video of a conservative activist named Denise Aguilar who claimed to be at the Capitol on January 6 bragging about how “we stormed the capitol, and patriots broke open the doors.” Zadrozny subsequently reported how Aguilar claimed she “never breached the building, nor participated in violence.”
In a soundbite, Aguilar described how the goal she and her fellow activists were trying to achieve was “all about local legislation, your local school districts, your city council, board of supervisors, so it kicked off as a national movement that it’s now, parents are realizing we need to start coming to the local government.”
Zadrozny used this to claim that anyone running for a local post (or supporting the liberal agenda at schools) is an extremist. And to back up her warped premise, she talked to Jared Holt from the Atlantic CouncilLocal conservative activists to be slandered by binding them to Aguilars and white nationalists.
According to Zadrozny, Aguilar’s shift in focus from national politics to local issues is “Part of a larger trend“Domestic extremismHolt’s “nonpartisan think-tank” studied the “as studied by Holt.” In their interview, Holt claimed the “adaptations that we’ve seen came in the form of kind of decentralizing these national movements.” Holt also made sure to bemoan how activists are re-engaging “In the larger conservative culture war.”
Zadrozny then played a clip in which Aguilar denied any intention of violence. Next, Zadrozny showed a clip featuring Alt-Right white supremacist podcaster Nick Fuentes praising school board reform. Zadrozny also sought to tie conservatives to the “Proud Boys”, another Alt-Right group:
Proud Boys, a group of protestors against health care measures in North Carolina and Long Island, took to the streets.
At the end, Zadrozny asked Holt if we are in a better place now than we were on January 5 of last year? In which Holt replied that he believed we are but “the undercurrents and the conditions that, led to January 6, this popularization of conspiracy theories, of extreme sentiments and ideologies is maybe more pernicious than it was last year.”
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NBC Nightly News
1/3/2022
7:14.53 PM
LESTER HOLT – This week marks one years since Trump supporters stormed into the U.S. Capitol. Since the January 6th riots, domestic extremists changed strategies. Brandy Zadrozny describes how this has happened in the series State of Extremism.
Rioters, stop the theft! Stop the theft! Stop the theft!
BRANDY ZADROZNY: January 6, 2021
Rioters: USA! USA!
ZADROZNY – Crowds marched up to the U.S. Capital building. The crowd grew to thousands. Denise Aguilar shared that she was at the event on social media.
DENISE AGUILAR, ACTIVIST: It’s revolutions over here guys. We stormed into the capitol and broke down the doors.
ZADROZNY. Aguilar said that she had never entered the building or participated in any violence. Since then, she has returned home to fight for her rights.
AGUILAR: It’s all about local legislation, your local school districts, your city council, board of supervisors, so it kicked off as a national movement that it’s now, parents are realizing we need to start coming to the local government.
ZADROZNY. Her shift fits into a larger trend, says Jared Holt of the Atlantic Council, which studies domestic extremism.
JARED HOLTZ: Domestic extremism can be described as a fluid which matches its container at all times.
ZADROZNY. Holt claims that after the backlash, hundreds of arrests related to the attack at the capitol, far right activists have switched their focus to local politics.
HOLT: A lot of the adaptations that we’ve seen came in the form of kind of decentralizing these national movements.
ZADROZNY – What is the content of these extremists talking about on a local level? Which content is it?
HOLT: Many of these people are attempting to get back into the wider conservative culture war.
AGUILAR – We’re here for the protection of children in our communities.
ZADROZNY. Aguilar was at a meeting with a California local school board member outside. He is opposed to mandates.
AGUILAR – We discovered that just going to Washington and getting that piece done doesn’t help because the legislators are already set in their ways.
ZADROZNY – She founded Mamalitia, and she claims her activism to be peaceful.
AGUILAR – Do you think we appear violent to others? Does it look like we are trying to conquer any location? What are my violent past acts in the capitol? Absolutly not.
ZADROZNY – Aguilar, like many others who share her goals uses Telegram and other social media platforms to strategize and organize.
NICK FUENTES: This is what they’re doing at the school board meetings
ZADROZNY – These are local strategies that prominent white nationalists embrace.
FUENTES Protests at school board meetings.
ZADROZNY – Groups such as the Proud Boys took to the streets in protest of public health measures, both on Long Island and North Carolina.
HOLT: Extremists have seen culture wars in a way that is ripe for anger and division.
ZADROZNY – Are we now in a better position than on January 5, last year?
HOLT, I believe there were some encouraging signs. However, the undercurrents, the conditions that led to January 6, this popularity of conspiracy theories and extreme sentiments and ideologies may be more dangerous than last year.
ZADROZNY. While attention is currently focused on the capital of the country, there are many places where the extremism can impact. Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, Washington.
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