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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Continues to Stoke a Domestic Terrorism Movement
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/trump-domestic-terrorism-january-6/. . .
Trump has made freshly evident, in other words, that he is serving as the inspirational leader for a domestic terrorism movement. His role as such was first openly described by a handful of leading national security experts in the season of his reelection defeat and tumultuous final months in office. Back then, the discussion centered on Trump using tactics of stochastic terrorism, a method of inciting violence veiled in plausible deniability that those experts (and this journalist) recognized from Trump in the run-up to January 6. Two conservative Republicans who left the Trump administration as whistleblowers in 2020, both counterterrorism experts, sounded the alarm, with one referring to Trumps coded support for far-right extremist groups. (Numerous members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who heeded Trumps call for supporters to descend on DC would soon face conspiracy charges stemming from the assault on Congress.) A third longtime Republican, a former senior national security official in the George W. Bush administration, described Trump as an arsonist of radicalization.
As the former president further seeks to rewrite January 6 and stoke incendiary far-right grievances, veiled tactics and plausible deniability are no longer in the equation, according to another expert among those last fall who called out Trumps tactics. So much commentary still seems uncomfortable or coy about stating what Trump is doing, says Juliette Kayyem, who served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama and currently directs national security research at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. Hes not hinting, whistling, or luring these extremists anymore. Hes providing an owners manual. I will never understand why we are being so polite about describing this.
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Trump has made freshly evident, in other words, that he is serving as the inspirational leader for a domestic terrorism movement. His role as such was first openly described by a handful of leading national security experts in the season of his reelection defeat and tumultuous final months in office. Back then, the discussion centered on Trump using tactics of stochastic terrorism, a method of inciting violence veiled in plausible deniability that those experts (and this journalist) recognized from Trump in the run-up to January 6. Two conservative Republicans who left the Trump administration as whistleblowers in 2020, both counterterrorism experts, sounded the alarm, with one referring to Trumps coded support for far-right extremist groups. (Numerous members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who heeded Trumps call for supporters to descend on DC would soon face conspiracy charges stemming from the assault on Congress.) A third longtime Republican, a former senior national security official in the George W. Bush administration, described Trump as an arsonist of radicalization.
As the former president further seeks to rewrite January 6 and stoke incendiary far-right grievances, veiled tactics and plausible deniability are no longer in the equation, according to another expert among those last fall who called out Trumps tactics. So much commentary still seems uncomfortable or coy about stating what Trump is doing, says Juliette Kayyem, who served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama and currently directs national security research at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. Hes not hinting, whistling, or luring these extremists anymore. Hes providing an owners manual. I will never understand why we are being so polite about describing this.
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Donald Trump Continues to Stoke a Domestic Terrorism Movement (Original Post)
CousinIT
Nov 2021
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They will tell you Barry and the email lady are domestic enemies. They've researched it!
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2021
#8
world wide wally
(21,836 posts)1. Do the words "Foreign and DOMESTIC" still have any meaning at all?
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)2. Not any longer, since the Slobfather poisoned this country
Initech
(109,260 posts)4. I think the label "domestic" makes the crimes lose all meaning.
Terrorism is terrorism no matter which way you look at it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)8. They will tell you Barry and the email lady are domestic enemies. They've researched it!
You can tell them that anybody comes at me with a needle and I'll kill them. I'll kill them all.
3 posted on 2021-11-18 by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us.
Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
(note the tag line)
3 posted on 2021-11-18 by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us.
Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
Brace as in when BLACK Capitol Police-Murderers get a chance to
prepare to wait and murder white women vets?
yes, that is what they do, without accountability.
Guillotines for conservatives for FEMA and FIB. Bullets to the neck
and head for conservatives by BLACK OBAMA-controlled CAPITOL
POLICE-MURDERERS.
Graphene poisons MANDATED into children and pregnant women. HOW IS
THIS NOT A BIOCIVIL WAR 2 STARTED BY THE GOVT???
36 posted on 2021-09-07 by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et
Obsequium Pauperum)
prepare to wait and murder white women vets?
yes, that is what they do, without accountability.
Guillotines for conservatives for FEMA and FIB. Bullets to the neck
and head for conservatives by BLACK OBAMA-controlled CAPITOL
POLICE-MURDERERS.
Graphene poisons MANDATED into children and pregnant women. HOW IS
THIS NOT A BIOCIVIL WAR 2 STARTED BY THE GOVT???
36 posted on 2021-09-07 by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et
Obsequium Pauperum)
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)3. Yep. He sees opportunity, no doubt about it.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)5. He does so from the comfort of security paid for by tax payers... nt
rickyhall
(5,510 posts)6. Shut him up Shut him up Shut him up
dalton99a
(95,240 posts)7. A clear and present danger.
peggysue2
(12,587 posts)9. This line is spot on
"I will never understand why we are being so polite about describing this.
Really! We all the saw the evidence in real time. We've all been exposed to the reckless rhetoric and now the documents are being exposed on January 6th. Not a walk in the park or a typical tourist event but a very deliberate attempt to overturn a legitimate election, aka A Coup. The fact that it failed is beside the point. These players were serious and Trump did everything he could to inspire, incite and let the house burn.
The sedition continues.
There's nothing polite or genteel about a coup. There's no bothsiderism in the discussion.
Trump and his enablers and supporters are traitors.
Really! We all the saw the evidence in real time. We've all been exposed to the reckless rhetoric and now the documents are being exposed on January 6th. Not a walk in the park or a typical tourist event but a very deliberate attempt to overturn a legitimate election, aka A Coup. The fact that it failed is beside the point. These players were serious and Trump did everything he could to inspire, incite and let the house burn.
The sedition continues.
There's nothing polite or genteel about a coup. There's no bothsiderism in the discussion.
Trump and his enablers and supporters are traitors.
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