Which is exactly the attitude our foreign adversaries and competitors have in mind when for very little money they can start online disruption campaigns on both sides of the aisle to induce further isolationism. Right wing extremism is the number one source of terror related deaths in the USA over the past ten years. While that group presents a size of risk that is a greater potential to cause harm to individual citizens here at home, it is insignificant compared to the size of the threat posed by nation-state adversaries, competitors and disrupters. And that’s what the public often confuses. Mixing up risk with threat. Or lacking the judgment and experience to differentiate between the two. In the W era, we got into a moral panic on both sides of the aisle where we thought the size of the risk from Bin Laden was equal to the size of the threat. Once we pulled up our pants and listened to the people warning us for 5 years about him, he was still a threat, but very very small risk. I think you’ll see in short order DOJ and state investigators dramatically lower the risk of right wing extremism. We’ve done it before, we will do it again. And if the far left wants to start planting bombs again, they will get the same treatment. Don’t lose sight of the long term enduring threats of portions of the Chinese agenda in the short term and their declared long term goal of subjugating this nation. We ignored bin Ladens plans and discounted him because he was not a nation state. Well, we’ve got a nation state now, with largely unlimited resources, with similar declared goals and plans. I’d wake up.
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