Shane Burley: The effort to fully unseat the rise of white nationalism will only come from a mass wave of organized resistance that seeks to make the environment inhospitable to racist scapegoating. - NBCNewsTHINK
titled “Leaderless Resistance.” In it, Beam pointed to a key vulnerability for organizations like the Klan. The federal government, he said, could too easily infiltrate, pull member lists, and then prosecute those members, even using organized crime statutes like RICO.
The answer to this, Beam argued, was to disperse into more informal networks and affinity groups. Going even further,, featuring militants completely separated from formal organizations. And it’s not just the hard core white nationalist fringe that is shifting this way. The Capitol attack is a prime example. While clearly taking some direction and influence from members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in their midst, many rioters operated more impulsively — especially once the violence started.This is not to undermine the importance of this trial. Successfully prosecuting Oath Keepers is, without a doubt, a net benefit.
At the same time, the conspiracy theories, nativism and penchant for revolutionary language is now becoming standard across the Republican Party, particularly among MAGA-aligned figures like Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.
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