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Re: For two decades, U.S. law enforcement has failed to see the rising threat of white nationalism.

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I think it's only really become a material issue under Trump.

Generally speaking, he has defined white people as a class of victim, much as every other minority and interest group has done. As part of a larger population of an identifiable group, a small but violent group is concerning.

I've been saying for sometime that the promotion of victimhood is an issue for the Dems also. I preferred the old proud, muscular US individuallism, while protecting genuinely vulnerable groups like children, the sick, the unlucky poor (ie not the deliberately so) and the elderly. But among Dems so many groups claim victimhood status and identify as such. I am not an identity politics Democrat.


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For two decades, U.S. law enforcement has failed to see the rising threat of white nationalism.
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Sat, 03 Nov 18 10:12 PM
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For two decades, U.S. law enforcement has failed to see the rising threat of white nationalism. Now they don't know how to stop it.
Saturday, November 3, 2018 2:59 PM EST

In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement of far-right extremism has grown and metastasized.

White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html?nl=top-stories&nlid=16112385ries&ref=cta


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