Roots of right-wing poison trace back to Timothy McVeigh

In this April 21, 1995 file photo, Timothy McVeigh is escorted from the Noble County Courthouse in Perry, Okla. McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001. (David Longstreath/AP)

TRACING THE POISON BACK TO MCVEIGH

You’d like to think that in the wake of the farcical and failed Jan. 6, 2021, uprising to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, even the Republican Party had sobered up and right-wing conspiracy theories were fading from prominence in the United States.