A lot of people voting for Trump want to burn down the system. For some, that blaze is purely metaphorical—a new broom, etc.—but for others genuine disaster isn’t something they dread, it’s something they anticipate, plan for, welcome.
It’s really little wonder that camo-wearing militia fanatics are attracted to Trump’s chaos. But even they are starting to realize that he just might lose—and it terrifies them.
The Georgia Security Force is one of scores of extremist militias nationwide that have rallied around the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, heartened by his harsh attacks on immigrants, Muslims and Syrian refugees. But no single issue motivates militiamen more than guns — and the enduring belief that Hillary Clinton is plotting to take them away.
What could be more American than a group united by bigotry and violence?
The Georgia militiamen mobilized in the piney woods here last weekend to fire weapons and train for the day when, they believe, they will be forced to defend what they call “our way of life.” …
“We thought it was bad under eight years of Obama, but the gun-grabbing is going to get a whole lot worse if Hillary gets elected,” said Chris Hill, 42, a blond-bearded paralegal who goes by the code name Blood Agent and commands the militia.
Now you’re talking, Captain Blood. President Obama signed laws that took away … I mean, he restricted … he … uh, okay, so the only gun laws Obama signed were those that reduced limitations on guns, including allowing guns to be carried in national parks and on trains. That park one reversed a law from that noted liberal, Ronald Reagan. The train one rolled back the assault on weapons by George W. Bush. It was brutal.
But then, these militia groups are not exactly shooting bullets of sweet reason and logic.
They are machinists and retirees, roofers and factory line workers, all steeped in the culture of the rural South. They say Mr. Trump, a Manhattan billionaire and real estate tycoon, speaks for them.
“Within the extreme right, many of Trump’s most passionate backers come from the militia movement,” said Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League. “The militia movement is overwhelmingly behind Trump’s candidacy.”
That’s right, boys, Donald Trump, who also goes by the code name “Heel Spurs,” dreams of nothing but you as he snoozes in his personal helicopter, on his way to his personal plane, ready to take him back to his personal gold-lined lair. Or at least, he thinks about how all it took to get your votes was hating the right people.
The Georgia Security Force is noteworthy among militias for its acute Islamophobia, Mr. Pitcavage said.
Noteworthy for its Islamophobia. Among militias. As in …
In September, some Georgia Security Force members paraded with guns while protesting plans for a local mosque; one wore a T-shirt that read, “Islam Is of the Devil.”
It’s not completely fair, because they do hate other people ...
Last year, armed Security Force militiamen rallied in support of the Confederate battle flag.
But it’s mostly just the Muslims that scare holy s#@t out of them.
Mrs. Bueter said Syrian refugees entering the country “scare the crap out of me.” With her guns and the militia’s weekend paramilitary drills, she said, she is prepared to fight for the values she has instilled in her children and three grandchildren.
Those values would be leaving women and small children to die in the wreckage of bomb-ravaged cities while their good friend Putin blasts anyone trying to help.
Being driven by fear is what defines the truest Trump supporters, and these phobia-laden Trumpinistas are shivering in their just-like-the-real-Army boots over the prospect that Hillary Clinton is going to be elected, open the gates, and flood them with Mooslims.
They repeat tropes gleaned from militia websites and social media. They seem convinced that either the Islamic State, or agents dispatched by Mrs. Clinton, or both, may soon descend on the woods of central Georgia.
Why would ISIS attack central Georgia? Because no one expects it. No one, except the vigilant three-percenters of the militia.
That may seem … a bit off. But really, even that’s not their biggest fantasy. There’s one that tops them all.
“Donald Trump would fit right in with our little group,” she said. “He wants America the way we want it, back like it used to be.”
Oh, absolutely. Trump would love to come right down there, slip into a camo coverall and eat freeze-dried goulash with you off the tip of a knife. Just stay out there. He’ll be coming any minute now.