Proud Boys, Boogaloo whatever. The neo Nationalists, if you will. I’ll begin lumping them all together under this currently fashionable term mentioned by Malcom Nance. Funny how if compared to the Black Panthers from the 60’s and asked what they were fighting for, they’d both say very similar things.
Billed as some sort of current national security crisis, they are not much to worry about. Despite the war mongering and weapon brandishing, just remember their primary motivation: Fear. They are afraid of losing their grip on racist hegemony underwritten by the government for centuries, and the comforting schadenfreude masking their own miserable existence.
The movement really took off in 2016 for some odd reason. Bundy proved what they were capable of then, just like the Widmer gang was about to do a few weeks ago. Y’all Qaeida sounds about right. They can easily learn what it’s like on the business end of a Hellfire missile if enough want to get together in one place pulling some shyt. That for obvious reasons, is unlikely to happen in this country. We don’t like our children growing up afraid of the sky.
There may be a few particularly dedicated stalwarts who succeed in things like the occasional robbery, bombing or murder. But there will be no mass insurrection or the widespread clan-on-clan warfare they dream about. We’re in a cleanup phase now. Every so often you have to take out the trash.
“FBI Director Christopher Wray said last month that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism–related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to white supremacy.”
