Trump’s Terrifying, Self-Serving Rebrand of Political Violence

It was undoubtedly embarrassing for the current administration of two of the affirmations that Trump most often deploys to legitimize his grip on power – that immigrants flood in the country and voted illegally – were appointed by a study funded by the Doj as two of the most common stories that the actors of the right law used to legitimize their violence. (When asked why this report was deleted, a director of media affairs to the Ministry of Justice responded to The New Republic“No comments, thank you.”)

But the Trump administration is not only flirting with far -right violence, not simply by quietly removing studies that follow its ascent; He creates a political space in which he can flourish. Such violence, in Trump’s eyes, no longer seems to be such a threat to the federal government, because it is now more openly aligned with the government. Last Friday, the president said“I’m going to tell you something that will cause me trouble, but I don’t care. The radicals on the law are often radical because they don’t want to see the crime … They say:” We don’t want these people to arrive “.” They share his concerns, in other words, and are therefore justified in what they do. “Left radicals are the problem,” concluded the president. The threat that political violence poses is measured by everything Trump thinks that it threatens to him.

To be clear, the minimization and denial of the right of this violence, even if it took place, has a previous one. Shortly after the first election of President Obama, an analyst of the Ministry of Internal Security noticed an escalation of terrorist threats made by the extreme right. Analyst, Daryl Johnson, had previously worked for the counterintelligence of the army, monitoring domestic threats against the military and at the office of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, where he investigated the neonazis, the white militias and supremacists. In the DHS, he continued this work, making a report for the application of the law called “right -wing extremism: the current economic and political resurgence of the climate in terms of radicalization and recruitment”.