Assault on Capitol Hill

If Islamic militants are driven by ideology and a skewed worldview, so are white nationalists and the MAGA mob.

The ransacking of the United States Capitol on January 6 by President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) mob officially signals the arrival of the age of extremism in America. The age of extremes otherwise occurred elsewhere and at other times—in 20th century for historian Eric Hobsbawm. But the urban sociologist Manuel Castells confirmed that the post-Cold War world would not be Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ but more like his teacher Samuel Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ when identities would take extreme forms.