Garrett Graff: “The media, the federal government generally, and the Justice Department and the FBI specifically, all have spent decades pretending that far-right violence and extremism just ‘happens.’ That there’s no ideology or organized effort behind it, that far-right extremism is just some sort of naturally occurring and random trait of certain offenders—like that some suspects have brown hair and others have blond hair.”
“And that’s where this week’s January 6th anniversary ties into three other apparent terror plots that we learned about and witnessed over the holidays that haven’t received proper context in the media’s coverage, three events that show that we are still under-reacting to the rising threat of far-right political violence in the United States, three events that show how unprepared we are for the months ahead as a nation, and three events that underscore—again—the danger posed by Trump’s choices of Kash Patel to head the FBI and Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general.”
