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In reply to the discussion: Police: Richmond riots instigated by white supremacists disguised as Black Lives Matter [View all]Grins
(7,217 posts)Remember back in April of 2009, when Republicans went all "Hulk-Smash" on a Dept. of Homeland Security report that warned that:
...rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues.
One of those "issues" being "That man!" in a very White House.
That predicted the:
...emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks...the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.
The Reich-wing's Noise and Rage Machine went into overdrive with John Boehner wondering why the term terrorist was used to describe American citizens, and demanded the Secretary of Homeland Security apologize. Remember the Reich-wing's rage screaming the report was:
"...a sweeping indictment of conservatives... that there was no evidence that an unquantified resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity" was occurring - at all.
Oops!!
This is why we can't have nice things.