The language describing Americans who love this country, and the ideals upon which it was founded, working its way into the "narrative" concerns me more every day.
This article may be too much for the average msm reader's attention span, but I see this sort of dehumanizing rhetoric aligning those who describe themselves as patriots with evil, mentally ill people, eventually being boiled down to the level of "orange man bad."
Here are a few paragraphs that caught my attention:
“A lot of them mask themselves under some guise of being patriots or some form of citizen, but the question is, what do they advocate? It’s violence. It’s overthrowing legitimately elected officials,” Thompson said in an interview.
In October, DHS identified violent extremism in the United States as the leading domestic terrorism danger, noting that white supremacists were responsible for more killings in 2018 and 2019 than any other type of attacker.
Neumann [Elizabeth Neumann, DHS Counterterrorism Advisor under Trump] predicted it will take five to 10 years to build out a more robust effort at DHS to prevent radicalization and extremism. What’s challenging about the current moment, Neumann added, is the speed with which radicalization occurs, as individuals can quickly go from embracing an ideology to planning an attack.
