He had practiced the speech in front of a mirror. He had written his eulogy for his father-a great man, he would say, great despite and because of it all-on hot-pink index cards. This story contains spoilers through the ninth episode of Succession Season 4. The 400-Year-Old Tragedy That Captures Our Chaos Sources: Magnus Wennman / Alamy Graphica Artis / Getty. Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic.This monologue was standard fare for Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate who likes to align himself with literary heavyweights and historical leaders. In a 20-minute speech before the court, he portrayed himself alternately as a character in Kafka’s The Trial as an “American Solzhenitsyn,” after the Soviet dissident writer who was sent to the gulag and as a misunderstood advocate for peace. At his sentencing, Rhodes was unrepentant. “You pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country,” Mehta told Rhodes. As Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Stewart Rhodes yesterday to 18 years in prison-the longest yet for a defendant involved in the January 6 insurrection-he explained why the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers needed to be behind bars for a long time.
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