Documenting Hate: New American Nazis. PBS Frontline episode from last night.

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2. Well at least the US authorities declared the proud boys / proud idiots ...

a terrorist group in this country (or something of the like, yesterday I think?). Slowly but surely, the message of hate and ignorant rhetoric is being pushed back by the American people, despite the efforts of rump.

This is one of the pitfalls of the Internet, in that these people such as the proud idiots discover that they have a platform and fellow believers in their messages of hate and bigotry. This causes the followers of these groups to come up out of their parent's basements and act on the erroneous belief that their actions are supported by vast numbers, which is of course, far from true.

There have been warnings (and still are) that internal groups are causing more concern among the FBI, and other governmental agencies than external sources (outside the US). I remember the uproar (I am sure led by the repugs too) that this warning caused, that US groups would be more of a concern than overseas groups. Now we see the proof.