We know that American history has not always been a fairy tale from the start it’s been a constant push and pull for more than 240 years between the best of us the American ideal that we’re all created equal in the worst of us a harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart
It’s a battle that’s never really over but on the best days enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in US to choose love over hate Unity over disunion progress over retreat so stand up against the poison of white supremacists I did my inaugural
Address to a single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy [Applause] and I’m not saying this because I’m at a black hpcu now is Biden noted in that speech at Howard University in Washington at Echo something has actually been warning about since he took office during his
Inaugural address while listing the threats to the country Biden said this now a rise of political extremism white supremacy domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat now critics were really quick to point out that Biden didn’t actually name any specific group now when we think of
Terrorism at least in the past we’d think of groups like Al Qaeda or Isis or you know people who provide material Aid such as firearms for example to groups like the Taliban so what’s the embodiment of this new terrorist threat well Biden hasn’t been too clear on this
But he has repeatedly tied it to what he calls Maga Republicans in other words former president Donald Trump and his supporters and why is it such a threat to the nation well Biden explained this in his soul the nation’s speech in September which was focused heavily really on demonizing mag movement let me
Show you Donald Trump and the Maggie Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic and here in my view is what is true Maggie Republicans do not respect the Constitution they do not believe in the rule of law they do not recognize the will of the people
They refuse to accept the results of a free election Maggie Republicans have made their choice they Embrace anger they thrive on chaos they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of Lies so apparently the greatest threat to the nation are the political enemies of Joe
Biden and the greatest crimes they commit are apparently to hold conservative views on marriage abortion and to question the Integrity of the 2020 elections now is that really the white supremacist threat of terrorism that Biden’s referring to or is it something else the Trump supporters actually hold this well there wasn’t
Much much really suggesting any of that at least interestingly until right after Biden’s recent speech soon after Biden’s speech at Howard University suddenly a group of white supremacists calling themselves the Patriot front that supposedly support Trump went parading around Washington holding American flags in symbols for
Their own group they had a police escort they were unchallenged by typical counter protesters like antifa and when they arrived at the Metro at the end of the March police allegedly prevented press from following them so do they represent Trump supporters are they representative of the Maga movement or
Of conservatives at all well apparently it doesn’t seem so there was a deluge of Twitter posts from conservatives and from news articles from conservative Outlets with a relatively uniform opinion just about every place you look most people believe that Patriot front are feds in other words the movement is
Viewed as what they call a Fed op or federal agents dressing up as Trump supporters to make Trump supporters look bad then who is Patriot front well according to the Anti-Defamation League it’s a texas-based white supremacist group that actually split out from another group called Vanguard America back in August of 2017. and
Interestingly the group is also Loosely affiliated with another white supremacist group called The Rise Above movement which had been heavily monitored by the FBI going back at least to 2017 as was detailed in a criminal complaint from an FBI agent now that group interestingly had ties to Ukraine’s as of Battalion including for
Training and that was actually shown in a report from Radio free Asia woke societies notes that the irony with all this is that American taxpayer money is potentially going to finance the white supremacist groups training by extension and it says the United States has for years funded trained and armed the
Ukrainian regiment while inadvertently through the support of groups like The azov Battalion give an indirect support to extremists both within the U.S and abroad and meanwhile we also we also recently saw some similar protest by an openly Neo-Nazi organization called The Blood Tribe the organization was protesting A Drag Brunch in Ohio now
That group was similarly condemned online very heavily by conservatives who also broadly called them feds so what’s the verdict well look it’s always possible the white nationalist groups have been infiltrated by federal agents we don’t really know and Trump supporters are not being overly paranoid for being suspicious of that the far
Left Community organizer salalinsky actually wrote in his book Rules for Radicals something along these lines and infamously laid out strategies for exactly this for example elinsky told far left activists in the 1970s that rather than directly protesting at the time against George Bush that they should instead dress like members of the
Klu Klux Klan and then pretend to support him the anti-trump organization Lincoln project was also actually outed in 2021 for doing something similar its members dressed themselves as white nationalists from the Charlottesville Riot and that appeared to support then Republican Virginia gubernatorial front-runner Glenn Younkin as a form of veiled protest
And folks the reality is that there are real white supremacist groups many of them are basically gangs they tend to be small and people on both sides of the political aisle tend to really not like them and look at least we can all agree on something right at the same time
There are real instances as well of groups dressing as white supremacists and then using that fake support as a way to protest politicians they don’t like so how does the Patriot front fit into all this well look certainly they are serving the interest of the by administration at least by making false
Connections of extremism to Trump and meanwhile Trump supporters and conservatives overall well they appear overwhelmingly to believe the group is a ruse and of course there’s the biggest elephant in the room which is that well look the groups are neo-nazis the Nazis were National socialists who pushed for race Politics the fascia Center
Mussolini they were collectivist socialists their slogan was everything within the state nothing outside the state nothing against the state look absolute State control that’s not exactly a winning talking point for conservatives the Trump movement for example tended really to support cutting government regulations rather than broadening them but regardless vague labels and dubious
Movements are being used to falsely frame a large swath of the entire country and look to me at least that does seem just a bit extreme
