Thread by @smsaideman

This is a fun tweet but

the US will need to engage in a counter-insurgency campaign against white supremacy
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just like it did in the 1990s.

https://twitter.com/MattGallagher0/status/1350141040343265284

When a counter insurgency is successful, people think of the insurgents as mere criminals and don't really think that hard about the government's ability to sustain itself.

People don't like to securitize things like pandemics or such for a variety of reasons. However, when violent actors threaten to kill politicians, including the 2nd-3rd in line, well, it comes pre-securitized.
Which means we need to think a bit about the war ahead.

The other side is armed to the teeth and have been threatening to kill people and overthrow the government. Which means that our side, the side of reason/democracy/government, needs to think about how to fight them. Not how to accommodate but how to fight.

How to separate the truly violent people versus the white supremacist supporters who are the sea to the violent fish. How to target carefully. How to minimize casualties. How to reduce the role that prisons play in breeding yet more.
This isn't a one week fight but a campaign

So, we need to figure out what worked in the past, what will work now. what failed before. And how to manage it in a completely different media space and with, yes, one party aiding and abetting.
Again, we didn't ask to securitize this. The folks with guns did.

Step 1 must involve facing the fact that US security forces are infiltrated. I have no idea how to address that. But the US can't go to war against white supremacist insurrectionists if they are among the police/secret service/etc...