I refuse to have enough faith in the ability of Americans to believe this is some nationwide organizational thing instead of dipshit local militia chuds shooting up power substations because they saw other people do it on the Internet
The right wing militia chuds have been pushing the idea of leaderless cell-based terrorism and sabotage for well over 40 years. They don't need high level coordination. This kind of sabotage is trivially easy and hard to defend against.
The problem for right wingers is that it's hard to get all this adventurism to coalesce into the type of naked, large-scale fascism they really want. As bad as the police are, they aren't disappearing people en masse like the Southern Cone dictatorships of the Cold War. As common as right-wing vigilante violence is, they can't get away with the kinds of death squads you saw during the Jim Crow era or you've seen in Latin America.
They'll get Years of Lead-style terror and increased police brutality, and that will help them more than it hurts them. But they want full acceptance of them and their program by the state, and that's not something they can force from the ground up.
I refuse to have enough faith in the ability of Americans to believe this is some nationwide organizational thing instead of dipshit local militia chuds shooting up power substations because they saw other people do it on the Internet
This is splitting hairs, still violent right wing terrorism
They both are but one is scarier than the other because it implies greater plans on the horizon
I've lost any and all faith in the ability of any American to plan anything at all, beneficial or malicious
The right wing militia chuds have been pushing the idea of leaderless cell-based terrorism and sabotage for well over 40 years. They don't need high level coordination. This kind of sabotage is trivially easy and hard to defend against.
The problem for right wingers is that it's hard to get all this adventurism to coalesce into the type of naked, large-scale fascism they really want. As bad as the police are, they aren't disappearing people en masse like the Southern Cone dictatorships of the Cold War. As common as right-wing vigilante violence is, they can't get away with the kinds of death squads you saw during the Jim Crow era or you've seen in Latin America.
They'll get Years of Lead-style terror and increased police brutality, and that will help them more than it hurts them. But they want full acceptance of them and their program by the state, and that's not something they can force from the ground up.