White House rebuffed DHS effort to make domestic terrorism a higher priority

Exclusive: White House rebuffed attempts by DHS to make combating domestic terrorism a higher priorityhttps://t.co/poDgkBiGFR

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 7, 2019

ICYMI
Do you think that white supremacist groups pose a threat to the United States?
ALL
Yes 65%
No 29%
Rep.
Yes 41%
No 51%
Dem.
Yes 88%
No 9%
Ind.
Yes 66%
No 29%
(Quinnipiac U. Poll, RV, 3/21-25/19)
trend: https://t.co/4PcBHk5kaR

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) August 4, 2019

Your Republican government cut funding for a program called CVE – Countering Violent Extremism. They re-allocated the money from white domestic extremism and focused totally on foreign, middle eastern, Muslim extremism. They did so contrary to the data.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) August 3, 2019

A reminder: 10 years ago an internal Homeland Security report warned about the danger of right-wing domestic terrorism. Republicans learned about it, rose up in outrage, and demanded that efforts to counter the threat be canceled 1/ https://t.co/ZEPAjsY749

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 4, 2019

I spoke to the DHS analyst who warned in 2009 that right-wing extremism was on the rise — he got thrown under the bus by the Obama admin after a Republican backlash.

He says Jan. 6 is just the beginning.https://t.co/ax5Gd6RKwn https://t.co/XSD94qitND

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 15, 2022

Tucker Carlson said last night that white supremacy isn't a "real problem" in the United States. This is almost too ridiculous to fact check, but here are a few numbers from me on the extent of the problem: pic.twitter.com/XFPY3BguD9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 7, 2019

The lockstep determination of the GOP to ignore the implications of Trump's language, or even to acknowledge the language for what it is, is indivisible. Is there any elected Republican who has called out Trump's use of "invasion" language common in white supremacist circles? https://t.co/HO7a2rRsFy

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 4, 2019

President Trump needs to condemn white nationalism as aggressively as he condemns CNN.https://t.co/XtyUruG6vM

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 4, 2019

National Review: “we are contending here not w/ another ‘lone wolf,’ but with the fruit of a murderous and resurgent ideology—white supremacy—that deserves to be treated by the authorities in the same manner as has been the threat posed by militant Islam.” https://t.co/clT9FhBnqM

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 5, 2019

My latest @BulwarkOnline examines the Civil War 2 fetish on the right, and its ties to white nationalist race war fantasies. 1/https://t.co/bn3N2sFr6K

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) March 21, 2019

Uh huh pic.twitter.com/k8FV3f04sH

— 🇺🇸 AlwaysVoteBlue 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PeopleDied2Vote) August 4, 2019

I'm so glad you brought this up. Actually, experts on white nationalism actually say we should use the word because this is a political ideology. This isn't some isolated madman but rather someone who is part of a movement. Here is @kathleen_belew https://t.co/gvei7n31WS

— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) August 4, 2019

One of the lead stories on the Sydney Morning Herald, early Monday morning in Australia:

"US in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis"https://t.co/pSsF2dNSaZ

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 4, 2019

"Deadly violence heightens concerns about domestic terrorism and white supremacists."

This @LATimes story was first published on Friday. Then updated today with the newest example.https://t.co/92xNNlxBjO

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 4, 2019

Stop calling these shootings an American sickness. White nationalism is an ideology. It’s a sick one, but hate isn’t the same as insanity. This rhetoric is a cover and a cop out. White nationslism is a CHOICE!!! #ElPasoShooting

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) August 4, 2019

When I was in Congress 8 yrs ago, our biggest domestic terror threat was Muslim American men radicalized by Islamism.

Today, our biggest domestic terror threat is white American men radicalized by white supremacy.

Conservatives must be honest enough to acknowledge this.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 4, 2019

Read this @FrankFigliuzzi1 piece from two days ago sadly predicting this. You cannot incite hatred without there being consequences. https://t.co/22aI04DDWA

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 3, 2019

As with Trump’s refusal to listen to our Intelligence agencies and combat Russia’s cyberwar on all 50 states’ voting systems and on U.S. sovereignty, this is gross dereliction of presidential duty, a violation of his oath of office. https://t.co/fkUTXzgbfu

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 7, 2019