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.

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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.

SW-User

@bigjohndl Go fuck yourself Trumpster

CopperCicada · M

@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

bijouxbroussard · F

@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.