The government believes the threat of violence and major civil disturbances is so great, it has quietly created a new category of extremists: MAGA.
The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter:
The White House declined to comment. The Trump campaign was given an opportunity to comment but did not do so.From the president down, the Biden administration has presented Trump and MAGA as an existential threat to American democracy and talked up the risk of domestic terrorism and violence associated with the 2024 election campaign.are a threat to the very soul of this country," President Biden tweeted last September, the first time that he explicitly singled out the former president.
The threats listed in that paragraph are all clearly associated with America's right and in particular with Trump's MAGA supporters. Right after January 6, the FBI co-authored a restricted report in which it shifted the definition of AGAAVE from"furtherance of ideological agendas" to"furtherance of political and/or social agendas." For the first time, such groups could be so labeled because of their politics.
Donald Trump at a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election at Erie Insurance Arena on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania.Though Trump and MAGA are never mentioned in the official description of AGAAVE-Other, government insiders acknowledge that it applies to political violence ascribed to the former president's supporters., and who defends what he says is merely a record-keeping change in response to Congressional pressure to track things better.
A senior intelligence official who works at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it is hard to digest all the evidence."When you are used to hearing that the sky is falling every day, when that's the nature of the cable news and"But I say this as a citizen as much as a government analyst," the senior official says."We are in a unique moment and the numbers are daunting.
Virtually all of the 2021 increases are specifically related to these events, including the enormous growth in what the FBI calls"assessments," which more than doubled from 2019 to 2021 and are revealed here for the first time. Republicans, on the other hand, see the FBI's focus on January 6th and the law-breaking associated with it as"weaponization" on the part of the Biden administration, to suppress GOP voters, to stigmatize the right wing and to transform what they see as principled dissent against societal norms—for example with regard to abortion, about what children are taught in public schools or in rejection of transgender categorizations—as extremism.
In March 2021, the review resulted in a public declaration that merely stated that domestic violent extremists posed"an elevated threat." It concluded that the most lethal threat came from two groups: racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacists—and militia violent extremists."Our experience on the ground confirms this," Attorney General Garland said.
Former White House head of counterterrorism Christopher P. Costa argues that while there is"an overriding government aim" in protecting U.S. citizens and"unflinchingly focusing on the rule of law, the anti-government domestic terrorist threat comes from only a small percentage of misguided fellow Americans."
So what exactly is terrorism when applied to American citizens, and does it apply to the current political situation? Domestic terrorism is defined in federal law as domestic activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state; and appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce the civilian population; influence the policy of the government by intimidation or coercion or affect the conduct of a government by mass...
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