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The Bostonians roundly abused the soldiers. One was informed the crowd intended to tar and feather him. They would afterward affix his head to the highest post in town. Others were pelted with stones and dirt and pieces of brick, dragged by the hair, punched in the face, struck with bludgeons. Or so they reported. The insults flew in both directions. They returned, according to a former judge, compliments for compliments, and every blow was answered by a bruise. Townspeople were abused and assaulted, women harassed. Bloodshed ensued, as might be expected between an armed force and a people who felt they had nothing to lose other than their self-esteem, their freedom and their future.

Already the British knew the drill: A bonfire would flare; a whistle would sound. And out of nowhere 400 or 500 youngsters would materialize. On the night of March 5, 1770, they pelted soldiers with ice and oyster shells, bricks and broken glass bottles. No one thought to dance naked in the street it was winter, in Boston but they could hardly have been more provocative. Damn you, fire, fire if you dare, they taunted. Damn them, where are they, knock them down, a soldier was heard to swear.

Ultimately someone pulled a trigger. Five townspeople lay dead. Blood stained the street. A Black American was the first victim. For the most part the soldiers would be acquitted of wrongdoing. They had acted in self-defense. More important, the scuffle turned not into the Boston Riot or the Boston Uprising, but the Boston Massacre.

Several years later, after long December days of town meetings, after endless speeches and equally protracted negotiations, over a thousand colonists headed, early on a damp evening, to Griffins Wharf. Three hundred and forty-two troublesome chests of East India tea sat aboard the ships on which they had sailed from England. Hatches were opened, holds entered, chests hoisted on deck. In a few hours, every leaf of tea steeped in Boston Harbor. By 9 p.m. the town was still. Boston had not known a quieter night for some time.

No one was hurt. No gun was fired. No property other than the tea was damaged. The perpetrators cleaned up after themselves. In the aftermath, the surgical strike was referred to plainly as the destruction of the tea. To the indignant Massachusetts governor, it constituted nothing less than a high handed riot.

He had a point: There is a difference between burning a draft card or toppling a statue and tossing someone elses goods overboard. This was an assault on property rather than on a symbol. Expertly choreographed, it qualified as a blatant act of vandalism. It was difficult to dress up, though John Adams would privately declare the dumping of the tea the grandest event since the dispute with Britain had begun. He thought it sublime.

To the occupiers it proved to be a particular mortification. The king demanded an immediate prosecution. It did not seem too much to ask: After all, thousands had watched the tea rain into the water, even if only several dozen men had actually boarded the ships. No one, however, seemed to have seen a thing. In all of Boston only one witness could be found and he refused to testify unless transported out of the colony.

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The Tea Party Express just hopped on the Byron Donalds train.

The conservative group endorsed the Naples Republican days out from a hotly contested Republican primary in Floridas 19th Congressional District.

Byron Donalds is precisely the successful businessman and Tea Party leader we need in Washington fighting to drain the swamp and helping President [Donald] Trump advance his conservative agenda, said Tea Party Express Co-Founder Sal Russo.

Billed as the largest Tea Party PAC, organizers stressed a long history with Donalds.

We first met Byron when he spoke at our rally in 2014, and we were impressed by his commitment to Tea Party principles. He will be an effective and principled Congressman for Southwest Florida, Russo said.

Donalds later won election to the Florida Legislature in 2016 and was reelected in 2018. He decided this year to forgo a third term and run for the open Congressional seat.

Long tied to the conservative movement, many Florida leaders within the Tea Party Express network praised Donalds.

Ive gotten to know Byron through the Tea Party movement, which he joined in 2010, and through interaction at local Republican clubs, said Tea Party activist Michael Thompson. As a leader in East Lee County Republican circles, Ive had an opportunity to track Rep. Donalds voting record in the Florida Legislature and have no doubts that he is the proven conservative in this race. He was willing to take on leadership and stand for our Second Amendment Rights when it mattered most.

Thats a reference to Donalds vote against the Parkland bill, something hes used to set himself apart from Dane Eagle, the other state lawmaker in the race.

Republicans also took shots at liberal House members like New Yorks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in their endorsement.

Hes a dynamic speaker and a tough debater, said Tea Party supporter Andrew Sund. He will have AOC and the squad on their heels if they are foolish enough to even think about coming after him in debate. Byron is what the party needs right now.

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Editors note: This is the 16th installment in a serialized history of Charleston to commemorate the citys 350th anniversary.

When the grand Exchange opened at the foot of Broad Street in 1771, locals saw great potential in Charles Towns new centerpiece.

The Palladian-style building was an architectural marvel, locals thought, perhaps even finer than Bostons Faneuil Hall. It would serve as custom house, meeting space, perhaps even a market. But by 1774 it was, at least in part, a tea warehouse.

Of course, the British had made it about tea.

After great outcry from the colonies, Parliament had repealed most of the Townshend Acts but didnt lift the tax on tea and basically gave the East India Company a monopoly on business in the colonies. The intent was to prove Britain had the authority to tax colonists, which was exactly what Christopher Gadsden had feared.

On Dec. 2, 1773, the London sailed into Charles Town harbor carrying a load of the controversial tea. Gadsden quickly dispatched his Liberty Boys into the streets, distributing leaflets that asked locals to attend an important meeting the next day at the Exchange.

If they allowed the tea to land, and the tax on it to be collected, it would set an unfortunate precedent and Gadsden wanted to get the sense of the people, as Walter Fraser Jr. wrote in Charleston! Charleston!

The planters, including Charles Pinckney, and the artisans, represented by Gadsden, favored a boycott on all British goods. But local merchants, including Miles Brewton, set up a local chamber of commerce to oppose the boycott. Profits were at stake. Charles Town was hopelessly divided.

The standoff continued throughout the month, but local attitudes shifted slightly after the incident in Boston. On Dec. 16, colonists there raided an East India ship, tossing more than 300 crates of tea into the citys harbor. Within two weeks, the captain of the London heard rumors that a Charles Town mob, inspired by Bostons tea party, was coming to burn his boat.

Local British officials locked the tea in the basement of the Exchange, and the threat of violence was averted. But the damage to British relations had been done, evident in the Royal Navys blockade of Boston Harbor.

By September 1774, five influential Charles Town residents John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge, Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch and Gadsden had traveled to Philadelphia as the colonys representatives to the First Continental Congress. Before it was over, Middleton would be appointed its seond president.

The colonies were just as divided as Charles Town. Some wanted independence from Britain while others called for reconciliation. After two months of debate, the delegates agreed to a boycott of all British goods ... unless the king repealed the tax. He didnt.

The Congress also suggested each colony form its own militia, because war was no longer out of the question. The first battles, at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, followed just six months later.

Charles Town received news of the battles on May 8, 1775. Gadsdens Liberty Boys were ready to fight, but as Robert Rosen wrote in A Short History of Charleston, (m)ost of the merchants, planters, and substantial citizens of Charles Town were for strong measures short of war.

That seemed increasingly unlikely. By summers end, rumors in Charles Town held that Carolinas royal governor would arm loyalists to keep the colony in line. So that November, William Henry Drayton the Liberty Boys leader while Gadsden attended the Second Continental Congress scuttled several ships at the harbors mouth to keep the Royal Navy out.

As the crews worked, Draytons ship was fired on by two British warships lurking just offshore. They were, Fraser notes, the first shots of the Revolution in Carolina.

Fear of a pending British bombardment overwhelmed the city, and Charles Town spent months shoring up its defenses. Slaves, who comprised more than half of the citys population of 11,000-plus, did much of the work. Some of them were organized into a makeshift fire department, with orders to extinguish any fire sparked by a surprise attack.

Many residents chose to simply flee, and Charles Town was eerily quiet as the spring of 1776 dawned. Henry Laurens wrote to his son that, I am sitting in a House stripped of its furniture & in danger of being knocked down ... by Cannon Ball.

Laurens and Charles Town would wait several tense months for the coming attack.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Georgias 14th congressional district, is a harbinger of her partys post-Trump future. Shes running in a strongly Republican district with an almost certain prospect of going to Congress. She disdains Black Lives Matter and argues that Muslims shouldnt be allowed to serve in government. Shes also an adherent of QAnon, the amorphous conspiracy theory that holds that Donald Trump is battling a secret cabal of Satanic cannibalistic pedophiles who control the Democratic Party, Hollywood, and the American government.Ad Policy

In a 2017 video, Greene said, Theres a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it. For his part, Trump returned Greenes regard. On August 12, the president tweeted, Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives upa real WINNER. Asked about QAnon on Friday, Trump avoided disavowing the conspiracy theory and reiterated his praise of Greene.

This tweet is in keeping with Trumps general approach of aligning himself with the QAnon movement but not explicitly affirming it. As The New York Times notes, Trump has not directly addressed QAnon, but he has conspicuously avoided denouncing it, and has shared dozens of posts from believers on his social media accounts.

A few Republicans, to their credit, have spoken out against Greene and QAnonbut they all are much less well-known than Trump. On the same day as Trumps warm words for Greene, Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted, Qanon is a fabrication, adding that there is no place in Congress for these conspiracies. Another Republican, Virginia Representative Denver Riggleman, tweeted, QAnon is the mental gonorrhea of conspiracy theories. Its disgusting and you want to get rid of it as fast as possible. MORE FROM Jeet Heer

But if QAnon is gonorrhea, more and more Republicans are getting infected, and party leaders are doing nothing to stop the spread. Kinzinger and Riggleman are lonely voices in their own party. As CNN reports, Top Republicans, including President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are embracing their partys nominee for a House seat in Georgia, despite her history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. Other Georgia Republicans, notably Senator Kelly Loeffler and Representative Doug Collins, have joined in welcoming Greenes primary victory.

The response of the GOP to Greene echoes the way the party handled Trump in 2016. At first there was some trepidation about Trump, with a few voices denouncing what he was doing to the party. But eventually, Republicans made their peace with Trump when they realized that they had to support him as their standard-bearer or suffer humiliating defeat as a divided party.

The future of the Republican Party very well may be Marjorie Taylor Greene, argues Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama adviser. Greene is one of eleven QAnon supporting Republican congressional nominees on the ballot this fall.Current Issue

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The conservative writer Bill Kristol, although a critic of the Republican Party under Trump, disagrees with this assessment. According to The New York Times, Kristol is skeptical about QAnons influence on the Republican Party. He pointed out that there had always been extreme outliers in both parties of Congress whose influence tended to be diluted by more moderate voices over time.

But even Kristol acknowledged that Trumps embrace could give QAnon a greater reach. If Trump is the president, and hes embracing this, are we so confident that its not the future? Kristol wondered.

QAnon is a byproduct of the Trump era and is likely to be part of his lasting legacy, long outliving his presidency. QAnon is best understood as a myth that helps Trump supporters reconcile themselves to his manifest flaws as a man and political leader. Trump thrives on negative partisanship, which requires that he be seen as preferable to his rivals. Given numerous reports of his sexual predations and corruption, the only way he can be acceptable is if his foes have committed the worst crimes imaginable. The embryonic version of QAnon was Pizzagate, which painted Hillary Clinton as a leader of a child sex ring.

The current version of QAnon took off on social media in 2017 when Trump was enmeshed in the Russiagate investigation. The conspiracy theory emerged on 4chan, a message board that facilitates anonymous posting. Q claimed to be a high-level insider with Q security clearance who had information that the entire Mueller investigation was a false flag operation used by Trump to hide his war against powerful pedophiles. Again, it served a narrative function: Building on the Pizzagate story line, it portrayed Trump as a heroic battler against a deep state conspiracy, thus helping to wave away evidence of actual corruption. Its no accident that prominent Russiagate figures like former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump crony Roger Stone have embraced QAnon.

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The current upsurge of QAnon is a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As NBC news reports, While QAnon bubbled on the fringes of the internet for years, researchers and experts say it has emerged in recent months as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and alternative health communities. According to an internal document reported by NBC News this week, Facebook now has more than 1,000 of these QAnon groups, totaling millions of members.

The report goes on to note that social media users who started off in wellness communities, religious groups and new-age groups on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram during the pandemic were then introduced to extremist groups like QAnon, aided by shared beliefs about energy, healing or Godand often by recommendation algorithms.

QAnon has been resilient because its a myth that serves to explain Trumps failures and wretched personal behavior. QAnon has helped recast a sexual predator as a covert fighter against pedophilia and an incompetent response to Covid-19 as a heroic battle against a pro-mask conspiracy.

If we understand QAnon as a conciliatory myth that evolves to excuse the horrific truth about Trump and Trumpism, then it is likely to have a long life after he is defeated. Itll become a Lost Cause myth about how a great man was felled by a sinister conspiracy. Donald Trump Jr. has already shared an Instagram post suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile. The presidents son explained the post by saying he was only joking around.

QAnon is not a nonviolent movement. As Media Matters reports:

The QAnon conspiracy theory has been tied to multiple violent incidents and threats of violence, including a man accused of murdering his brother with a sword, a man accused of murdering an alleged crime boss, a man who reportedly threatened to kill YouTube employees, an armed man who blocked the Hoover Dam with an armored vehicle, and even a man who threatened to assassinate Trump, among numerous other incidents.

If Trump loses and QAnon evolves into a narrative about how a conspiracy of pedophiles won, then itll become even more violent than it already is.

QAnon is sometimes treated as if it were analogous to the Tea Party movement or the John Birch Society, a right-wing faction within the GOP coalition. But in fact it is much more violence-prone than those groups. Its closer in spirit to terrorist organizations like the KKK, which had ties to political elites but also instigated extrajudicial violence.

Trump could leave the White House in January of next year, but QAnon will be with us for a long time to come.

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