Look! Under The Bed! Commies!!!!

AP: 2 National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias and have been removed from mission to protect inauguration

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) January 19, 2021

I'm glad these two were found and removed from duty at the Capitol.  But some of the internet reporting on this reminded me of the Red Scares of my youth, when Commies could be anywhere and anybody, and were most certainly standing at your elbows even now.

The group who overran the Capitol probably constituted everybody so motivated and some who just got caught up in the contagion, especially with the fear and panic and general shitshow 2020 was with Covid and the complete failure of government, at every level, to rationally respond to that crisis.  But they weren't the tip of the iceberg and there isn't a "shadow army" of such lunatics waiting to storm the capitols of all 50 states on a signal and take over government from school boards to the U.S. Congress.

I'm glad they removed these two; but it was only two.  That doesn't mean the remaining 24, 998 escaped detection.