And Then the Breitbart Lynch Mob Came for Me | Foreign Policy

"Here’s how lynch mobs form, in the age of the alt-right and “alternative facts.”



First, you inadvertently wave a red flag at an arena full of bulls. Then you sit back and wait for the internet to do its dark magic.



In my case, the red flag was a few paragraphs at the end of a recent column, speculating on what would happen if Donald Trump truly and dangerously lost his marbles. I wondered about one “possibility … that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders”:

And Then the Breitbart Lynch Mob Came for Me | Foreign Policy