http://www.alternet.org/belief/domestic-extremists-greater-threat-isis?akid=14323.294211.xCZtT0&rd=1&src=newsletter1057755&t=12
America's Homegrown Domestic Extremists Pose a Greater Danger Than ISIS Ever Will
Far-right groups consider anti-government violence justified, and Trump's nomination has only emboldened them.
Take America back from those who have stolen it.
Protect America from those who want to destroy it.
Restore the principles that these usurpers betrayed.
These are the messages that have defined the GOP presidential race. They have been used for the past eight years to justify obstruction of the Obama administration, and are now being used to paint the democratic candidates as
dangerous. In the late stages of the GOP primary as the rhetoric became increasingly xenophobic, they were applied to increasingly broad swaths of the American population as well.
Years of constant repetition by members of the GOP have given them an appearance of legitimacy, now strengthened by Donald Trump’s victory in the GOP primary contest and the party’s growing embrace of him as their standard-bearer.
Unfortunately, the Republican Party isn’t alone in using these messages.
Right-wing extremist groups use them as well, and to very specific ends: to define the conditions under which antigovernment violence becomes
legitimate in
their worldview.
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