This is in reference to the Day of the Rope from the Turner Diaries. It’s a fantasy among white supremacist terrorists of mass executions at the start of a racial, civil war. We journalists get a lot of these.

Many of the gun-toting “protestors” are working to realize this. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1259465120863981568

It’s very popular to dismiss these threats as internet fare and the people who send them as trolls, but there is a large network of whites supremacist terrorists who have trained for and planned massive operations. Many of them see the pandemic as their opportunity.

We can pretend white supremacist terrorists are jokes, just gun nuts or losers, but to do so is to pretend there isn’t a massive paramilitary movement in this country that mirrors those in the past that have ushered in fascist regimes and committed mass genocide.

I can tell you from personal experience, there’s hardly a day that goes by where I don’t get specific threats regarding my safety, including information that has obviously been sought out. Details of movement. Locations. People showing up, sending threats in the mail.

You need to understand there’s an organized system to both suppress and intimidate Trump critics, journalists, and politicians and it’s connected to a massive terrorist network.

These are real things and if you don’t recognize it you’re missing the scope of our crisis.