St. Louis Couple Is Trump's Pitch to the Scared Suburbs - The Atlantic

...As an accompanying video produced by the RNC panned from crowds of protesters back to the cloistered McCloskeys, the implication was clear: The "criminals" and "mob" are Black, while "honest citizens" are white. "These radicals are not content with marching in the streets. They want to walk the halls of Congress," Mark McCloskey warned. "They want to take over. They want power. This is Joe Biden's party." The McCloskeys, who have spent decades suing their neighbors and family members to protect their property, want power too. They have asserted "squatter's rights" on a patch of shared land in their subdivision, sued a dog breeder who sold them a German shepherd, and destroyed beehives that were part of the education curriculum at a synagogue next door to their property, threatening legal action if the congregation didn't clean up the mess, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently reported. "They are bullies," the rabbi Susan Talve told The Forward yesterday. "It's upsetting we make heroes out of people who hate."...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/mccloskeys-trump-suburbs-rnc/615655/