Nafees Hamid is a London-based cognitive scientist who studies political violence. I'm a cognitive scientist who has been studying the drivers of political violence for the better part of a decade. My work has involved interviews, social network analysis, psychology experiments, and surveys of jihadists, white nationalists, and conspiracists. Jan. 6 insurrectionists, QAnon adherents, and other fringe actors are not the same as jihadists, but some findings on the latter are instructive. While the number of people who support insurrectionists is worrisome , they are nonetheless still a fringe group and thus the weaker side of the conflict.

Source: CNN May 08, 2021 18:00 UTC