Threat Assessment

[dewline]

Filed by Garrett M. Graff with Politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/experts-knew-pandemic-was-coming-what-they-fear-next-238686

Call it stuff that civil defense planners, science fiction writers and citizens in general need to take interest in.

Comments

[thewayne]

Very interesting. Yeah, white extremism has been a serious threat for a very long time and Republican administrations tend to completely ignore it. It's been a problem for decades.

[dewline]

The Republicans - with notable exceptions if memory serves - tend to consider such people part of their "base" ever since the "Southern Strategy" began. A distressing habit.

[thewayne]

The problem is that ultimately they will start eating their own in a quest for purity.  I was reading about 'keyword' FB groups since FB bans Racism, they now talk about dancing.  So some politician, let's say Steve King as an example - not that he's done anything blazingly stupid of late that I know of - says something.  These people will say 'Did Soandso talk about Boogaloo?  Okay Bois, let's Boogaloo!'  And FB won't do anything "Because maybe they're talking about dancing."