\n\n“This is not the first time that a group of Americans decided that winning an election was more important than maintaining a democracy. In fact, it\u2019s because of those other examples that we know which sociopolitical trends to beware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Nov. 10, 1898, following a municipal election that had installed an integrated city council<\/a>, white elites from the city of Wilmington, North Carolina mobilized a mob that burned down the town\u2019s Black newspaper, killed hundreds of Black residents and forced the newly elected council members to resign at gunpoint. It was a riot, organized and planned in advance, and aided by people in charge of the government so they could stay in power \u2014 pesky electoral outcomes be damned.” “This is not the first time that a group of Americans decided that winning an election was more important than maintaining a democracy. In fact, it\u2019s because of those other examples that we know which sociopolitical trends to beware of.<\/p>\n On Nov. 10, 1898, following a municipal election that had installed an integrated city council, white elites from the city of Wilmington, North Carolina mobilized a mob that burned down the town\u2019s Black newspaper, killed hundreds of Black residents and forced the newly elected council members to resign at gunpoint. It was a riot, organized and planned in advance, and aided by people in charge of the government so they could stay in power \u2014 pesky electoral outcomes be damned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,1135,642,758,1134],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-insurrection","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/our-radicalized-republic\/#part1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"