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In November 2020, Donald Trump lost his re-election to Joseph Biden. Trump refused to accept his second term loss and instead labeled the election fraudulent. Rhetoric among his supporters spread, stating that a massive amount of Biden votes were unlawfully cast. Trials and investigations were conducted into the validity of the election, which demonstrated Biden's lawful fun. Trump and his supporters continued rejecting the legal election outcome, even as Biden was inaugurated as President in January 2021.1
Using the internet to fuel his followers, Trump and many of his supporters instigated an attempted-coup on the Capitol in January 2021, which led to the death of four rioters and one police officer, and the injury of approximately 138 other officers.2 Their attempt to demand that Congress "stop the steal" of the election was unsuccessful. Since then, more than 500 people have been charged with storming the Capitol.3 A week after the attack on the Capitol, Trump was impeached for a second time. The trial was held due to his "incitement of insurrection." He was then acquitted by the Senate 57-43, falling ten votes shy of the required two-thirds majority.4
Leading up to the Capitol riots, Trump granted executive clemency to 237 individuals including the Alt-Right provocateur, Steve Bannon.5 In November 2020, Trump's illicit electionfraud rhetoric on social media began to be censored. His favorite platform, Twitter, labeled his posts with the disclaimer, "This claim about election fraud is disputed." After the Capitol attack in January 2021, Trump was suspended from his Twitter account for twelve hours. Two days later, his @realDonaldTrump account was permanently banned and the @POTUS, @TeamTrump, and various other Trump Administrative accounts were suspended.6 Twitter also deleted more than 70,000 accounts affiliated with election-fraud rhetoric following the Capitol riot. Other social media platforms suspending Trump include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, and more.7
The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal.8 For the Alt-Right, though, this sentiment is not within their ideals. Rather than all men having the same unalienable rights, the internet-based white nationalist movement believes that the white Christian male is superior. Although the white-superiority mentality is nothing new within the United States, the Alt-Right movement is. Fueled by technological developments within the new-age of media at...