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Why is the Trump administration unconcerned with the threat from far-right domestic terrorism ?

The Trump administration has sought to repurpose the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism program to focus only on the radical Islamic threat while cutting programs aimed at deradicalizing neo-Nazis and their ilk.

Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to three deaths and 19 injuries, the Trump administration revoked a grant to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.

Back in May, a joint intelligence bulletin from the FBI and DHS stated that white supremacists were responsible for more attacks than any other domestic extremist group over the past 16 years and warned that they were likely to carry out more attacks in the coming year. And a recent analysis of terror attacks from the libertarian CATO Institute concluded that, since 1992, far-right extremists have killed about 10 times as many Americans as far-left extremists have.
Doomflower · 36-40, M
Because he's a
SupercallousedfragileracistsexistnaziPOTUS!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll sound quite braggadocious
SupercallousedfragileracistsexistnaziPOTUS!
@Doomflower Awesome !!! 👍🏽
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Doomflower that is top shelf
Well, given that the Cato Institute is a libertarian free market think-tank, whose founders include one of the Koch brothers, who whose board includes CEO's and managers of BB&T and Barclays, and whose fellows include the late Hayek himself...

... I'd tend to think it's not left leaning, left sympathetic, pro-leftists.

So then the question is: [i]why do people think the threat of death and injury comes from left leaning protesters?[/i]
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@Tminus6453
And your opinion on the question asked by OP would be?
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
@Burnley123 Something he has in common with his hero. 😉
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout CATO Institute isn't liberal.
sogdianrock · 61-69, M
hi pezzza
far-right are his people.
Best wishes
:)
Because they got him elected
bigjohndl · 70-79, M
The violent rally in VA was provoked by the leftist Antifa. The white supremacist were protesting the removal of the General Lee statue legally and with permits to do so, when they were attacked by the antifa wearing helmets and using ball bats. While the Charlottesville police were told to stand down.

The threat is from the left. They attack when people don't believe what they want them to.

Please cite the study from the CATO institute. I cannot find whick study you are referencing.
@bigjohndl it's the top of the google search "cato institute right terror"

and it's just as the OP said. jihadist terror >> right terror >> left terror

https://www.cato.org/blog/terrorism-deaths-ideology-charlottesville-anomaly
bigjohndl · 70-79, M
@SW-User reported
@bigjohndl You support white supremacy, then ? The right-wing, with groups like the KKK and the John Birchers are the folks who have actually had the means to disenfranchise.
They were the ones lynching people. We don't want them back. And it's ironic that they've latched onto the so-called "Party of Lincoln" and [b]that's[/b] who's defending the Confederacy in 2017.
Southern Democrats may've founded the KKK back during Reconstruction, but their leaders are Republicans today.
I'm just waiting for this administration to refer to them as terrorists in general and stop this idiotic cycle of victim blaming nonsense.
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
@MsAnnThropy He's never going to do that , Breitbart would explode.
whoowho · 41-45, F
Oh, you mean Trump's voting base? Hmm ... I wonder why? 😉

Americans have amnesia.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/u-s-sees-300-violent-attacks-inspired-far-right-every-year/
unknownpoetx · 36-40, M
because they are the terrorists. they are white nazis that promote hate towards minorities. just like hitler. just listen to breitbart
SW-User
Is #45s eyes only muslims are terrorist
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Greenbare Trump says so but Pezza's stats say the far right do ten times the amount.

Pezza or Trump, which of those people is most likely to have done some research? 🤔
@Burnley123 I'm waiting for somebody to say the CATO Institute is an ANTIFA or BLM front.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
SteelHands · 61-69, M
The priorities make sense to me.

Programs that only make problems worse get cancelled and ones that strengthen our country get priority.
[b]These are Trump's supporters. His core base.[/b] And he agrees with them. That's why, although he's [b]never[/b] hesitated in the past to condemn anything else, he hesitated to denounce white supremacists. He knew (and they know) he didn't mean a word.
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@LvChris well, in some sense i provoke it. not for the sake of provocation, but i feel it's important to call things out. especially false equivalences, handy redefinitions, and moving goalposts. america is stuck in a mode where our history began in 2009 when obama was inaugurated and our political theory is stuck in the rhetoric of the 2016 election.
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@LvChris that is something that bothers me. issues addressed in a biased fashion. i am the type that will call out, together, BC, HRC, BO, and DT as all not particularly pro-woman.

 
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