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Just reviewed a bunch of my LGF articles from 2009 about that DHS report on right wing extremism, and I think people may have forgotten what a sheer unbelievable shitstorm the conservative movement raised about this totally factual, even prescient report.
Their grotesque attempt to cover up the extent of the problem was absolutely massive, and employed the same kinds of lies and distortions we see the Trump gang using today.
It was a unison attack by _every_ conservative outlet, media site, blog, pundit, all of them. And it worked. Anti-terrorism units focused on right wing extremism were disbanded.
Law enforcement training to deal with it was halted and personnel were assigned to other tasks. The conservative movement essentially forced the agency that’s supposed to protect us from domestic terrorism to ignore a growing threat.
And the reason why all these conservatives were so vehement is even more obvious now with the Trump crime family in power - they saw themselves as ideologically aligned with these extremists. Oh, not that they’d condone violence, of course! Perish the thought.
But they circled the wagons and defended these groups because they recognized their family members.
