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Informationen zum Autor Luke Mogelson has written for The New Yorker since 2013, covering the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. During the pandemic, he reported on the social tumult in the U.S., including the uprising in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Previously, Mogelson was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine , based in Kabul. He has won the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award. Klappentext The Storm is an eyewitness reckoning with American far right's mounting radicalisation over the course of 2020, building to the 6th January storming of the Capital and beyond, tracking the dynamic between the bottom-up - the militias and their ilk - and the top-down - Trump and the media's incitements - in the context of a pandemic, an election, and a social justice movement from the left that became the ideal bogeyman. Until a year ago Mogelson was a war reporter whose prizewinning journalism from Iraq and Afghanistan had gained him an international reputation. He asked to return to the US to report on the political extremism and polarisation that was gripping the country. Within days of his landing George Floyd had been murdered. Mogelson spent the rest of the year following Black Lives Matter protests, the Antifa movement and others on the left, and the radical right, from QAnon, Bugaboo, the Proud Boys and the Republican party. He visited cities where peaceful protest met police violence and where radical factions fought hand to hand on the streets. He reported as if from a war zone.Wide-ranging and ambitious in narrative scope, The Storm identifies the nexuses between Trumpism, right-wing conspiracies, Christian fundamentalism, and white nationalism, mapping out the evolution of these ideological currents throughout 2020, as they shifted from sparking an anti-lockdown movement opposed to public-health measures during a pandemic, to supporting a law-and-order movement opposed to racial justice and police reform, to fueling a stop-the-steal movement opposed to the American democratic process and its institutions. Vorwort The Storm is Here is a record of a year that changed America. Zusammenfassung The New Yorker 's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power. ' This is a searing book, exquisitely reported, lyrically told, and so vivid it will make your heart stop-a dark journey into what ails America ' Patrick Radden Keefe On the morning of January 6, a gallows was erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A little after noon, as thousands of Trump supporters marched past the structure, some paused to climb its wooden steps and take pictures of the US Capitol framed within an oval noose. Up ahead, the dull thud of stun grenades could be heard, accompanied by bright flashes. Several people carried Confederate flags. Others had Tasers, baseball bats, bear spray, and truncheons. 'They need help!' a man shouted. 'It's us versus the cops!' No one seemed surprised by what was taking place. There was an eerie sense of inexorability, mixed with nervous hesitation. It reminded me of combat: the slightly shocked, almost bashful moment when bravado, fantasy, and training crash against reality. In early 2020, Luke Mogelson, who had been living in France and covering the Global War on Terrorism, returned home to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore in the US. Soon, he found himself embedded with militias descending on the Michigan state capitol. From there, the story swept him on to Minneapolis, then to Portland, and ultimately to Washington, D.C. His stories for The New Yorker were hailed as essential first drafts of...
