In recent years, far-right terrorism has become a leading national security concern for the United States.
However, this type of violence and the extremism that inspires it are far from new, as explored in the new book Gods, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America by CFR experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware.
The far right has been gaining momentum for decades, helping to proliferate conspiracy theories and ideologies such as white supremacism, antisemitism, and anti-government extremism, which have fueled an increasing number of violent incidents.
The far right has been gaining momentum for decades, helping to proliferate conspiracy theories and ideologies such as white supremacism, antisemitism, and anti-government extremism, which have fueled an increasing number of violent incidents.
- 1865 - Formation of the Ku Klux Klan - Illustration showing members of the White League and the Ku Klux Klan clasping hands over a suffering African American family...
- 2019 - Christchurch (NZ) Shootings - People walk under police tape as they leave after prayers at Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch, New Zealand...His attack is inspired by U.S. conspiracy theories (including over guns), and in turn inspires follow-on attacks in the United States.
- 2020 - COVID-19, Racial Justice, and the ‘Big Lie’ - Armed civilian men stand on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, taking part in a protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's expanded stay-at-home order during the Covid-19 pandemic...Both before and after his November 2022 election loss to Joe Biden, President Trump repeatedly airs unfounded concerns over mail-in ballot voting and repeats the falsehood that the election was “stolen.”
- 2021 - Riots at the U.S. Capitol Building...
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