The White House is once again tolerant of white supremacy.
WASHINGTON—There
are some remarkable stories that have vanished for now in this city.
One of the most prominent of these is that out-and-out white supremacy
is operating at the very top levels of the executive branch of the
government in a way that it hasn't since, I don't know, the Wilson
administration. The Collected Works of Steve Bannon are bad enough. From
USA Today:
"They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat."
And,
if Bannon isn't enough, there's this guy who looks at immigration as an
invasion, an act of war. Which, of course, never has been a problem
anywhere else in the world, ever. From New York:
"The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle."
The whole campaign stank of this kind of thing,
but there was a great scrambling during the campaign to minimize or to
ignore it, or at least to minimize or ignore the possibility that it
would continue to flourish within the administration. (This manifested
itself more clearly in the stubborn refusal by many news organizations
to recognize how vital this phenomenon was to the campaign's overall
appeal.) This, it seems, was very premature. This development on
Wednesday is downright unnerving. From Reuters:
The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States. Such a change would reflect Trump's election campaign rhetoric and criticism of former President Barack Obama for being weak in the fight against Islamic State and for refusing to use the phrase "radical Islam" in describing it. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for attacks on civilians in several countries.
Leave
aside the fact that everyone who knows what they're talking about
thinks this move is counterproductive in the fight against that which
the president* believes he's at war. This is an unmistakable signal to
the camo-wearing, gravity-knife wing of modern conservatism that it's
less of a priority for federal law enforcement any more.
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This comes on the heels of a story in The Intercept that white ethnocracy is becoming quite the fashion among various law-enforcement officers.
In a heavily redacted version of an October 2006 FBI internal intelligence assessment, the agency raised the alarm over white supremacist groups' "historical" interest in "infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel." The effort, the memo noted, "can lead to investigative breaches and can jeopardize the safety of law enforcement sources or personnel." The memo also states that law enforcement had recently become aware of the term "ghost skins," used among white supremacists to describe "those who avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes." In at least one case, the FBI learned of a skinhead group encouraging ghost skins to seek employment with law enforcement agencies in order to warn crews of any investigations.
There
is no question that this old, rough beast has been unleashed in our
politics again. The first steps in unlocking the cage happened years
ago, when modern conservatism attached itself to the reanimated corpse
of American apartheid and rode it to glory. Anyone who doesn't see the
danger should pay a visit to Oklahoma City. That is what we can do to
each other if our leaders are reckless, ambitious men who think what
they say has no consequences.
In
the museum near where the Murrah Building once stood, there is the
handle of a jack that was in the back of the truck in which Timothy
McVeigh placed his bomb. That jack handle was blown nearly a quarter of a
mile and lodged in the wall of a law office. There is also a clear tube
containing hundreds of watches, all stopped at 9:03. No political gain
is worth that.
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