New Mexico militia eager for 'civil war' receives warm embrace from state's Republican officials

The reactionary presence of right-wing paramilitary groups has always been a problem for an open democratic society, and has become acutely so during the period of social upheaval we’re currently experiencing—a viral pandemic and mass protests involving police brutality. The threatening behavior and rhetoric of these groups is a proto-fascistic attempt to shut down free speech and democratic institutions, and any official support for them from people in positions of authority represents an embrace of this fascism. Yet in New Mexico, a flock of state Republicans have made official their adoption of a vigilante militia organization—one calling itself the New Mexico Civil Guard, seemingly to claim a false mantle of public support, but accountable to exactly no one.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/8/13/1969033/-New-Mexico-militia-eager-for-civil-war-receives-warm-embrace-from-state-s-Republican-officials