Foreigners coming to America to kill Americans, we immediately condemn and we see it as offensive, wrong, illegal, and we've waged 20 year war on terrorism against this kind of threat.

Somehow when it occurs in the United States,

it's something we ignore, we don't want to come to grips with.

And in part, that's because of the constitutional freedoms freedom of expression freedom of assembly

but we have to understand too that words matter and that words can be weaponized and as we've seen

unfortunately in the digital era be very quickly and easily transformed into want and outright violence.

Last month on a bright day in the Capitol, President Biden used a phrase that no

previous president had used in an inaugural address, white supremacy.

A rise of political extremism. address, white supremacy.

A rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism.

His words were delivered in the very spot where just one week earlier a mob of insurrectionists stormed the capital at the behest of

President Donald Trump. The riot was not exclusively a white supremacist event

but it did bring together extremists from a wide array of white nationalist

and white supremacist groups, many openly carrying flags and symbols in support of

their movements.

One of the most haunting images of that day

was that of the Confederate flag being lofted

in the halls of the Capitol building.

For years, the United States

has devoted enormous resources to fighting transnational terrorism.

But until now, the threat of homegrown white supremacist terror

has not received the same focus.

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