Examination of the 3%er #militia movement by @DTAnalytics & Alejandro Beutel. A summary 🧵
While most attention has been on #whitesupremacist angle of the far right, this piece looks at anti-Islamic sentiment as the glue that binds much of the movement
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While most attention has been on #whitesupremacist angle of the far right, this piece looks at anti-Islamic sentiment as the glue that binds much of the movement
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"...anti-Muslim hate is one of the few issues that brings together otherwise disparate and fractious elements of the far-right, both within and beyond national borders."
This chart from @jjmacnab in 2018 is great. Compare/contrast w/@selectedwisdom's graphic (next). They aren't looking at the exact same thing but useful both in and of themselves as well as if you're thinking about how to use graphics to depict subjects w/lots of fuzzy borders 
Here's Clint's graphic from this week...
What is the "far right"...The authors include the following extremists under that banner:
- racist
- anti-government
- nativist
- anti-abortion
- male supremacists
- racist
- anti-government
- nativist
- anti-abortion
- male supremacists
There are some great recommendations in this piece. In particular, check out the section on leveraging existing state/federal laws to combat armed paramilitary extremists rather than creating new laws.
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