Far-Right Extremists: America’s Real, Dangerous Threat

The far-right extremists’ violence is currently the concern of many American citizens especially with the Presidential elections so close and after the news about their alleged Michigan governor kidnapping plan and the “Proud Boys” Portland rally in September.

The law enforcement authorities including the FBI have found it significantly difficult to acknowledge the extent of the far-right extremists’ threat over the past decades seeing as mentioned by AP:

Living in different cities and towns, not just in America but all across the world. For example, the “KKK” group which most people think is only found in the South America, but actually has followers all over America. Far-right extremists also expressed themselves globally in Norway during the 2011 massacre and in New Zealand during the 2019 mosque attack which led the United Nations to issue a global alert about the increasingly dangerous threat of right-wing extremism.

Well educated and respectful, many of the far-right extremists are well educated inpiduals with degrees from different elite universities like the 1978 physics professor who wrote the “Bible of Racist Right” book. Not to mention that most of the far-right extremists are social media experts who use the different platforms to recruit people and organize rallies like the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. This is why Facebook and Twitter have recently banned all and any the far-right extremists from their platform. However, the far-right extremists usually find ways to evade the restrictions by creating new pages or groups.

Not just white supremacist groups, while most far-right extremists believe in white supremacy (the belief of the superiority and dominance of the white race) like the “Ku Klux Klan” group and “neo-Nazis” group, not all of them share the same beliefs seeing there is another category of far-right extremists that only focuses on opposing the government rules like the many tax protestors, militias, and the “Boogaloos” who encourage a civil war to overthrow the government.

It is worth mentioning that even though the far-right extremists’ hate crimes increased since the beginning of Donald Trump’s campaign in 2015, their history dates to long ago since the slave patrols and the rise of the “KKK” group after the Civil War back in 1865.

The “KKK” group had millions of members in the 1920s and the Nazi sympathizers’ numbers increased significantly in the 1930's with the pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1939 that had a 20 thousand people in attendance and the 15 thousand uniformed “Silver Shirts”.