A white nationalist lieutenant in the coast guard was arrested a week and a half ago, on charges of illegal drugs & weapons possessions that his writings suggest he may have procured in preparation of a Breivik-inspired terrorist attack (possibly targeting people on a list he'd compiled of Democratic politicians and non-right-wing journalists):
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...stic-terrorist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rror-feds-say/
Given that this has many of the hallmarks of a domestic terrorist plot, it's a little surprising that it wasn't publicized until someone at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism uncovered the filing, but, now that it's out there, I think it may be time to once again revisit the threat represented by white supremacists in law enforcement and in the armed forces.
The problem isn't unique to the US; in recent years, there have been stories about WS & neo-Nazi groups in the armed forces in eg the UK and in Germany as well. In the US, this threat predates the MAGA era by many years; over a decade ago, the FBI and the DHS warned about the growing risk of infiltration of law enforcement bodies by these groups, as well as of recruitment among both current members & returning members of the armed forces, in reports that appears to have been (largely) ignored except for by some journalists and people with a special interest in RW extremism, eg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/m...far-right.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/66521...ight-extremism
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...aw-enforcement
While the FBI at least seems to have been covertly tracking the activities of some of these groups & individuals, some analysts believe the US's counter-terrorism competence wrt domestic [para]military RW extremism is inadequate, and has been harmed by decades of neglect, allowing these movements to become a more severe and more widespread threat.
I can't help but think that the public is still far too complacent about this problem, something I believe is indicated by the continuing rise in violent war-themed rhetoric about civil war and calls for stockpiling weapons that regularly feature even in mainstream RW media.
How can we best tackle these problems? What strategies are likely to work? Is it too late to do anything meaningful?