evidence: The January 6, 2021 insurrection opened the eyes of the world to the growing threat of extremism in the United States. As discussed in a later section, the attack on the U.S. Capitol is the most glaring—but far from the only—demonstration of the danger armed extremism poses to our democracy. But from a broader lens, January 6 was a culmination of decades of extreme right conspiracy theories such as the supposedly looming threat of government authoritarianism and mass confiscation of guns that resulted in a belief that the democratic transfer of power was in fact a ruse that warranted taking up arms against the government. [...] d. January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol (2021)