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Trump stirs far-right rage despite FBI deprioritizing extremist threat
(www.theguardian.com)
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God, I can't wait till someone "removed by moderator"s him.
They won’t. Even if they’re angry with him, they undoubtedly realize that his policies, on a whole, benefit them.
Do they?
Remember that it’s people like this that believed there was a left-leaning pedophile ring based out of the basement of a single level pizza restaurant. Fact checking isn’t high on the list of many people who follow such ideologies.
They're not the upper 1%. These policies don't benefit them.
Dismantling the FBI's domestic counter-terrorism monitoring of the far-right absolutely benefits them. They won't see any financial gain. But they'll stay out of jail as they commit hate crimes or get off with a slap on the wrist. Not mass-shooters, mind you. But a lot of others committing smaller, less spotlighty crimes.
You think all of his supporters are terrorists?
No, that would be silly. My mother voted for him. She's certainly not a terrorist. I think a lot of far-right would-be terrorists are happy that he likes their politics, however.
Okay, but I don't even think they're close to the majority of his supporters. That might even be close to another 1% figure. I stand by my statement that his policies are not helping his supporters.
The article is about the far-right. We're not talking about his average voters. Therefore, we don't disagree, but we are talking about different things.
I wouldn't even think the fat right as a whole is mostly terrorists. The terrorists are the most extreme of the extreme.
Why is everyone forgetting the actual attempt on Trump's life by a little right-wing shit? It was just a year ago.
I don't think they will because there are 350,000,000 Americans in this country and the two assassination attempts were clearly plants.
Out of 350,000,000 Americans at least a few of them are looking for a way to halt the regime. The problem isn't people being angry enough or benefitting too much. it's lack of opportunity.
Hitler survived 42 attempted assassinations. Possibly more. That was with a population of ~80,000,000.
Trump is gaurded far better than Hitler was, has access to far more resources than Hitler did, and his circle of trust seems to be far more exclusive than Hitlers. The heritage foundation has been running this show under different names for well over two centuries. This is a game that authority has lost time and time again, but the scales get larger and larger each time.