A militia leader once dispatched him to a Democratic Socialists of America meeting at a local library, he said, where he saw a Proud Boy he recognized from a joint militia training. Was this a closet right-winger keeping tabs on the socialists? Or a closet leftist who might dox him or inform the police?

Williams believes extremists will try to murder him after this story is published. And if they fail, he thinks he’ll “live to see the United States cease to exist.” He identifies with the violent abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start a slave revolt two years before the American Civil War and was executed. Williams thinks he himself may not be seen as such a radical soon, he told me. “I wonder if I’m maybe a little too early.”

The sheer amount of dedication it takes to keep up a ruse for that long is astonishing. He made it all the way to leadership of Utah, that’s ridiculous!

And he probably could’ve gone even further since I don’t think it was necessary for him to bail when he did. He only sent an email warning a local politician about a death threat. It’s the US, I figure that’s a routine thing. The woman calling for the assassination could reasonably have been blamed for the leak instead since she’s a civilian who probably doesn’t practice good security. Idk it just doesn’t seem as incriminating to me as it did to him.

Absolutely fucking wild. No shock at all that law enforcement and political figures are involved and supportive of these ‘patriots’.