The attacker who killed 11 people in the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in 2018 frequently shared RWDS memes online before carrying out the attack, Meghan Conroy, a research fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and a former investigator for the Subcommittee on January 6, told Insider. Hayden told Insider he first encountered the phrase in the early days of the Trump era and that it appeared as a "kind of insidious meme." But the acronym referenced in alt-right social spheres has evolved from being a simple online meme to appearing in real-world extremist crime scenes. "It's essentially a call-to-arms for would-be fascists, neo-fascists, and anyone who believes in a hard-right authoritarian state," Micheal Edison Hayden, a spokesperson and senior investigative reporter for Southern Poverty Law Center, said. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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