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The takeover in 2016 by
right-wing extremists of a fed-
eral bird sanctuary in Oregon.
A standoff in 1992 between
white separatists and federal
agents in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
The 1995 bombing of a federal
building in Oklahoma City
that killed 168 people.
Right-wing extremism has
previously played out for the
most part in isolated pockets of
America and in its smaller cit-
ies. The deadly assault by riot-
ers on the U.S. Capitol, in con-
trast, targeted the very heart of
government.
And it brought together, in
large numbers, members of
disparate groups, creating an
opportunity for extremists to
establish links with each other.
That, an expert says, poten-
tially sets the stage for more vi-
olent actions.
“The events themselves, and
participation in them, has a
radicalizing effect. And they
also have an inspirational effect.
The battle of Capitol Hill is now
part of the mythology,” said
Brian Michael Jenkins, a terror-
ism expert and senior adviser
to the president of the RAND
Corporation think tank.
‘All have led to this moment’
Mary McCord, a former act-
ing U.S. assistant attorney gen-
eral for national security, said
the climate for the insurrection
had been building throughout
the Trump presidency.
She cited the 2017 “Unite
the Right” white supremacist
rally in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, that killed one person,
aggressive demonstrations at
statehouses by armed protest-
ers railing against COVID-19
public health safety orders and
mass shootings by people mo-
tivated by hate.
“All have led to this mo-
ment,” McCord, now a visiting
law professor at Georgetown
University Law Center, said in
an email.
The Southern Poverty Law
Center, which monitors U.S.
extremists, has recorded a
55% increase in the number of
white nationalist hate groups
since 2017.
White House press sec-
retary Jen Psaki said Friday
that President Joe Biden had
tasked the director of na-
tional intelligence, in coordi-
nation with the FBI and the
Department of Homeland
Security, with compiling a
comprehensive threat as-
sessment on violent domes-
tic extremism.
The White House will also
have its National Security
Council review policy to de-
termine whether the govern-
ment can better share infor-
mation or take other steps to
mitigate the threat.
Long before the abortive
insurrection of Jan. 6, the FBI
had warned that domestic
extremism and white su-
premacy represented a rising
and troubling threat, and
vowed to take aggressive
steps in response.
But, some critics say,
ever since the 9/11 terrorist
attacks two decades ago,
the FBI has been far more
primed culturally to inves-
tigate terrorism that is di-
rected or inspired overseas.
Rick Bowmer/AP file
Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum holds a gun as he guards the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns in
January 2016. Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed takeover of the refuge, was later shot dead by Oregon
State Police officers after he fled an attempted police stop.
Joe Marquette/AP file
Randy Weaver holds the door of his cabin, showing holes from bullets
fired during the 1992 siege of his Ruby Ridge, Idaho, home during tes-
timony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in 1995. The
standoff in the remote mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old
boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked the expansion
of radical right-wing groups across the country.
Among those who partici-
pated in the Jan. 6 assault on
the U.S. Capitol were members
of the Oath Keepers, which of-
ten recruits current and former
military, police or other first
responders; the Proud Boys
neo-fascist group; followers of
QAnon, which spreads bizarre
conspiracy theories; racists
and anti-Semites; and others
with nearly blind devotion to
then-President Donald Trump.
“Jan. 6 was kind of a Wood-
stock of the angry right,” Jenkins
said in an interview. “The mere
fact those groups were coming
together, mingling, sharing this
anger, displaying this passion —
it is going to have effects.”
But what happens next? Will
Jan. 6 be a high-water mark for
right-wing extremists, or lead
to other attacks on America’s
democracy? Right now, the
movement — if it can be called
that — seems to be on pause.
Supposedly planned armed
protests at all 50 state capi-
tals and Washington this past
week that the FBI issued a na-
tionwide warning about drew
virtually no one. That could
indicate the groups are demor-
alized, at least temporarily.
Turning on Trump
Trump is no longer president,
and his social media reach has
been severely curtailed, with
Twitter banning him. The ex-
tremists had come together in
Washington on Jan. 6 because
of their fervent belief in Trump’s
lies that the presidential elec-
tion had been stolen, and in
response to Trump’s tweeted
declaration that the protest in
Washington “will be wild.”
Now, some are clearly angry
that Trump disassociated him-
self with the very insurrection
that he stoked. They’re upset
he failed to come to the rescue
of rioters who were arrested
while he was still president and
are still being detained and
charged.
Online, some people asso-
ciated with the Proud Boys,
which adored Trump, appear
to have dumped him.
“No pardons for middle
class whites who risked their
livelihoods by going to ‘war’ for
Trump,” a Telegram channel
associated with the group said
after Trump issued many par-
dons, but none for the insur-
rectionists.
Another posting on the chan-
nel said: “I cannot wait to watch
the GOP completely collapse.
Out of the ashes, a true nation-
alist movement will arise.”
Believers in QAnon are also
reeling after Trump left office
without fulfilling their baseless
belief that he would vanquish a
supposed cabal of Satan-wor-
shipping cannibals, including
top Democrats, operating a
child sex trafficking ring.
Among them was Ron Wat-
kins, who helps run an online
messaging board about QAnon
conspiracy theories.
“We gave it our all. Now we
need to keep our chins up and
go back to our lives as best
we are able,” Watkins wrote
on Telegram after President
Federal law enforcement
officials are privately debat-
ing whether they should de-
cline to charge some of the
individuals who stormed the
U.S. Capitol this month — a
politically loaded proposition
but one alert to the practical
concern that hundreds of
such cases could swamp the
local courthouse.
The internal discussions
are in their early stages, and
no decisions have been
reached about whether
to forgo charging some of
those who illegally entered
the Capitol on Jan. 6, accord-
ing to multiple people famil-
iar with the discussions.
Due to the wide variety of
behavior, some federal offi-
cials have argued internally
that those people who are
known only to have commit-
ted unlawful entry — and
were not engaged in violent,
threatening or destructive
behavior — should not be
charged, according to peo-
ple familiar with the discus-
sions. Other agents and pros-
ecutors have pushed back
against that suggestion.
— The Washington Post
Joe Biden was sworn in and
Trump flew off to Florida.
Jenkins said the next phase
for the extremist groups and
people who saw Trump as a
savior could transform into a
broader national movement in
which factions coordinate and
combine their assets.
Or the widespread condem-
nation of the insurrection could
cause the movement to shrink,
leaving more determined el-
ements to strike out on their
own and launch attacks.
Jenkins recalled the 1970s,
when some anti-Vietnam War
militants hardened into the
Weather Underground, which
launched a bombing cam-
paign. Among places targeted
were the U.S. Capitol and the
Pentagon, but the only people
who died were three militants
who accidentally blew them-
selves up.
“I think given the events of
this past year, and especially
what we’ve seen in the last cou-
ple of months, this puts us into
new territory,” Jenkins said
“And you don’t put this back in
the box that easily.”