As the midterm elections approache in the US it is becoming apparent that the slow motion coup that erupted into the frenzy of violence on January 6 has evolved into something more insidious.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is currently in the hospital recuperating after being attacked and beaten with a hammer by an assailant who seemed intent on violently attacking the house speaker.

The attacker, David Depape, is reported to have asked Paul Pelosi for the whereabouts of his wife. When informed of the absence of the speaker, Dapape indicated that he would wait for her.

Paul Pelosi underwent surgery for a fractured skull and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. Depape has apparently posted information online that supports conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccines, the 2020 elections, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol building.

President Joe Biden immediately weighed in on the attack, connecting it to the rising incidence of right-wing extremism in America. Calling the attack despicable, President Biden added that there was too much political violence, too much hatred, and too much vitriol in America. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said he was horrified and disgusted by the attack, while House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy also reached out to the speaker of the house in solidarity.

Prior to the attack, New York City police issued a warning stating that extremists could target politicians, political events, and polling sites ahead of the midterm elections. The events of January 6 clearly are not the end of the slow motion coup that is continuing in America. The Republican Party, under the leadership of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, was shrewd enough to recognise that the political future of Caucasians in America rests on having the right people in the right positions.

While the Democratic Party has been working overtime to control the office of the president, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, Republicans have been quietly stacking the Supreme Court and other courts with Republican and Trump loyalists. Republicans have also been concentrating on gubernatorial races and other officials crucial to the certification process in the Electoral College system.

The shenanigans pulled by Trump and his team to cast doubt and overthrow the results of the 2020 elections were nothing more than a dress rehearsal for what is coming in the midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election. When Caucasian nationalists, Christian nationalists, Identitarians, Caucasian supremacists, and others marched in Charlottesville chanting the South will rise again, Democrats and Caucasian liberals should have listened and understood exactly what they were saying.

Black America understood only too well because the sons and daughters of Africa in America have seen the same script play out before their eyes time and time again. Whenever racist Caucasians felt that minorities were advancing too fast and too far the brakes were applied either legally or by the barrel of the gun. Professor Carol Anderson chronicles this Caucasian backlash in her book entitled White Rage.

The situation facing the US is reminiscent of the events that led to our great ancestor Malcolm X making his famous chickens coming home to roost statement. The American Government has long granted Caucasian supremacists space to operate with impunity. For centuries the federal government, local government, and law enforcement at all levels looked the other way as Caucasian supremacists did what they love to do to minorities.

Unfortunately for the US, these same Caucasian supremacists have once again crawled out from their sewers and cesspools and are about to wreak havoc on the American political landscape. The US Government was presented with a golden opportunity to crush racism when Northern troops finally delivered the whipping needed to bring the South in line.

Regrettably, the Compromise of 1877, which gave the presidency to Republican Rutherford B Hayes, also led to the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. The withdrawal gave racist southerners a free hand to deal with black people as they chose. The result was the birth of Jim Crow in America.

As our brother Malcolm X said, the chickens are coming home to roost and all of America is about to experience the same Caucasian rage that has been the bread and butter of the black experience in America for centuries.

Lenrod Nzulu Baraka is the founder of Afro-Caribbean Spiritual Teaching Center. Send comments to the Jamaica Observer or rodeneynimrod2@gmail.com