Experts say white supremacists have benefited from president’s policies but anger remains among neo-Nazis
Donald Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism from opponents and Maga diehards alike, on issues such as Jeffrey Epstein, the war with Iran, and his steadfast alliance with Israel in the face of genocide. But among the ever dangerous far right, which has generally applauded Trump’s efforts to deport thousands of people a day, his actions of late have stirred rage among a group experts say has benefited greatly from his administration’s law-enforcement pivots.
The FBI, headed by Trump acolyte Kash Patel, has reassigned the jobs of thousands of agents and eviscerated parts of the bureau tasked with investigating rightwing extremists that are considered the most dangerous domestic security threat facing the US today. Those same types, which includes a locus of fascist street-fighting gangs known as active clubs and accelerationist neo-Nazis, increasingly view Trump as an enemy, but are freer than ever to organize – almost entirely due to changes instituted in his latest presidency.
They’re not the upper 1%. These policies don’t benefit them.
Dismantling the FBI’s domestic counter-terrorism monitoring of the far-right absolutely benefits them. They won’t see any financial gain. But they’ll stay out of jail as they commit hate crimes or get off with a slap on the wrist. Not mass-shooters, mind you. But a lot of others committing smaller, less spotlighty crimes.
You think all of his supporters are terrorists?
No, that would be silly. My mother voted for him. She’s certainly not a terrorist. I think a lot of far-right would-be terrorists are happy that he likes their politics, however.
Okay, but I don’t even think they’re close to the majority of his supporters. That might even be close to another 1% figure. I stand by my statement that his policies are not helping his supporters.
The article is about the far-right. We’re not talking about his average voters. Therefore, we don’t disagree, but we are talking about different things.
I wouldn’t even think the fat right as a whole is mostly terrorists. The terrorists are the most extreme of the extreme.