If they had rioted in a big city like Houston, Chicago, Miami, or Los Angeles, the crowd would have far outnumbered them and resisted. Why was this group converging on gays in Idaho, not in a city in their own states? I’m guessing that they expected little resistance in a deeply conservative state. But then I realized it has a larger significance, as it signifies the normalization of extremism, that is, extremists who wear uniforms and show their faces instead of lurking in the shadows and muttering to themselves. When I read it before, I decided not to post it. I saw the article in the Houston Chronicle but it was widely reported. The men arrested came from different states. The 31 were on their way to disrupt a gay pride parade in Idaho. A truck filled with 31 individuals was stopped in Idaho.
This is a strange yet unsurprising story.
