The far right will not win this showdown. They count on overwhelming apathy and indifference [View all]

[Tom Rinaldo]

In other words, they depend on "good men doing nothing in order for evil to succeed." As long as fascism just kept creeping forward, rather than full frontal rearing it's ugly head, it was well on its way toward victory. But beating cops to death with American flags doesn't play so well on national TV, and in order for the right to seize power and/or at the very least totally destabilize our government, they are going to have to do a lot more than murder a few cops. If and when they do, those acts will be met with wide scale revulsion.

The Oklahoma City bombing, which happened inside one of the reddest of states in America, didn't usher in the start of a right wing revolution, instead it set those "efforts" back. Until Trump took office there was a much greater federal emphasis on combating right wing extremism in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. The rise of Islamic extremist jihadists blurred that focus somewhat, and then Trump buried it, but the more violent the right becomes now the more it will turn average Americans against it. The far right has been flushed out of hiding now, the shadows that they gathered in are being hit by spotlights. They increasingly are pushed toward violence because the political cover that allowed them to organize openly is being stripped away with the return of Democratic control of the Federal Government. Their plans are being revealed so they must rush to execute whichever ones they still can, but those are premature by at least a couple of years. The far right ate the Republican Party but didn't get time to fully digest it. They were counting on a second Trump term as President to consolidate their hold over national security, over the Justice Department, over the FBI, over law enforcement at local levels.

Even corporate America is peddling furiously away from any possible linkage to the far right now. Corporate America has thrived in America as we have come to know it, so it does not welcome dramatic wide scale social unrest that severely rocks the boat they are cruising on. The far right can't afford to go dormant now while a Biden appointed Attorney General goes full steam against them, they have to play their cards now before more of their members are rounded up. That means increased violence of the sort that will sicken most Americans, which will serve to isolate the extreme far right, spurring their neighbors and co-workers to turn them in. FBI Tip lines are already burning up, but it's just the beginning. Extremists can terrorize Americans for a time, but they will be buried under the backlash to any carnage that they cause.