I don't get it. Whenever this topic comes up, the general exchange feels like there is still a question of white supremacist domestic terrorism in the US. Is this again about the usage of the terms? A problem of reception, lol?
There is a security service called FBI in the USA. Its job description is: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency."
This organisation has reported in 2010 that the biggest danger to American people in the US is the white supremacist domestic terrorism. In 2010. (Actually, if memory serves right, they've tried to explain the situation as if telling to a simpleton -for obvious reasons because terrorism is coded very different in American minds- saying that 'right wing domestic terrorism is 9-10 times danger to American people than Islamic terrorism.')
What was happening in the US in 2010? 2 years after the world spread mortgage crisis. Obama was just in office after the war criminal piece of shit was finished, Biden was vice pr. . What was the general mood of the country? Doesn't matter who hated that he won, it was hopeful, cheeerful, dynamic...etc; positive in general. And in that atmosphere, the most alarming domestic security isssue was already reported as right wing, white suprematicist domestic terrorism.
President Obama has put the term 'white suprematicism' on the page in this context; literally on the government page defined as a legitimate, high security risk for American people. (It was reported that one of the first thing Trump did when he got in the office was to remove that term.)
The reason I was reading about that report and all this years later then, a few years ago from now, because I had just googled a name I'd never heard before; Sovereign Citizen. I've also posted that news piece about the FBI report here.
Now, what I got from the last picture. When you look at the numbers of the cases; attacks in general; shootings, church burnings...etc commited by white supremacists in just the last year of Obama's period, it is more than the cases of Trump's whole 4 year because most of them are NOT even NAMED as 'domestic terrorism' let alone 'white supremacist' or 'right wing' domestic terrorism. They're just 'incidents', 'shootings, violent actions of mentally ill people'.
The best thing Democrats -politicians, activistis, groups, people- can do is to force these terms to be established first. Making them household terms. Leaving no doubt that USA has been suffering from a specific kind of right wing domestic terrorism for the last two decades at least, in this context. That is very important. Calling it with the specific name of what it really is very important. This is very familiar to me. I sometimes feel like watching a weird late remake in another dimension. I don't want to write about it, let's leave at that.