The administration's response to far-right extremism

[struggle4progress]

June 7, 20195:42 PM ET
HANNAH ALLAM

... there's no comparable national strategy to fight white supremacist and other far-right movements ...

Michael McGarrity, assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, bristled when lawmakers suggested that, given the apparent disinterest from the top, federal authorities might not be taking the far-right threat seriously enough. McGarrity bluntly stated, more than once, that racially motivated violent extremists are the deadliest and most active of domestic terrorists ...

In 2015, Homeland Security opened a small office devoted to an approach known as "CVE," countering violent extremism ... Under the Trump administration, the CVE-focused office lost about 90 percent of its old budget and about half its staff ...

In the early months of the Trump administration, a leaked FBI report warned about ... black identity extremists ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley ... asked McGarrity if there's a single killing the FBI could link to Black Lives Matter or similar activist groups. McGarrity's reply: "To my knowledge, right now, no" ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730346019/5-takeaways-about-the-trump-administrations-response-to-far-right-extremism

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. right-wing extremist terrorists are GOP constituents

These domestic terrorists are important constituents for the GOP. The GOP has fanned the flames of such extremism for years, ever since they figured out the majority of the country disagrees with Republican policies. The Republican party depends upon a coalition of extremists to remain politically viable.