Armed Standoffs With the Government, Uber Militias, and Ammon Bundy s Run to Be Idaho s Next Governor Mother Jones
The notion that Bundy, whose critics jokingly deride as the leader of Y all Qaeda, might stand a chance in a statewide election would strike many Americans as absurd. Then again, nobody ever thought Donald Trump would be president. [Bundy] has this arm reaching really far to the right, to the real extreme kind of militia groups, but he is always careful to position himself as nonviolent, says James Skillen, a Calvin University professor and author of This Land Is My Land: Rebellion in the West. Bundy s politics are extreme, Skillen says, but he speaks a language that appeals to mainstream conservatives, Trumpians, and libertarians, as well as Mormons and evangelical Christians. He s a meaningful link between mainstream and extreme conservativism in America.
All eyes turn to Idaho.