The Election Story Nobody Wants to Talk About

David Neiwert was a 21-year-old newspaper editor in the Idaho Panhandle in 1978 when the Aryan Nation showed up in town.

He and Rick Perlstein have been friends since blogging’s early days .

Mainstream American political journalists have always been shockingly indifferent as well to the right-wing violence emerging in our midst.

In a wide-ranging Zoom call last week , Dave and I talked about that institutional failure.

Rick Mercer : It's incredibly hard to predict; we’re talking about unstable people, acting out.

Trump and his minions hope that they can work the electoral count to force the outcome of the election to either go through the Republican Congress or the Republican Supreme Court .

Then there will be massive protests—I think quite deservedly so. And the Three Percenters , militias, the Proud Boys, are going to come out to play, not just defending the Trump administration but attacking the protesters.

Julian Zelizer says the media and law enforcement aren't ready to deal with antifa threats.

Zelizer: We need to have an adult conversation about what is likely after the election.

He says the mainstream Democratic Party really doesn’t want to run on this issue; it’s a reality we have to talk about.