{"id":4274,"date":"2021-01-21T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:45:22","slug":"theres-still-no-evidence-antifa-was-significantly-involved-in-the-capitol-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Still No Evidence Antifa Was Significantly Involved in the Capitol Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Antifa is a real threat, and I&#8217;ve spent years&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1250169887\/reasonmagazinea-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documenting its illiberal activities<\/a>. Most recently, antifa&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/01\/11\/powells-books-antifa-andy-ngo-store-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protested<\/a>&nbsp;a book store for daring to sell a book by the antifa-critical writer Andy Ngo. (The predictable result of their efforts was that Ngo&#8217;s book surged to the top of the Amazon bestsellers list.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s fair to pin every example of mob violence on antifa. We&nbsp;<em>know&nbsp;<\/em>who caused the Capitol riots: supporters of the president who heard his call to protest the outcome of the 2020 election and took action.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/01\/15\/antifa-capitol-riots-maga-trump-evidence-fbi\/\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/01\/15\/antifa-capitol-riots-maga-trump-evidence-fbi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Antifa is a real threat, and I&#8217;ve spent years documenting its illiberal activities. Most recently, antifa protested a book store for daring to sell a book by the antifa-critical writer Andy Ngo. (The predictable result of their efforts was that Ngo&#8217;s book surged to the top of the Amazon bestsellers list.)<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s fair to pin every example of mob violence on antifa. We know who caused the Capitol riots: supporters of the president who heard his call to protest the outcome of the 2020 election and took action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[855,336,1138,221,1135,856],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-antifa","tag-attack","tag-capitol-building","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-riots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}