They Forecast a Hate Wave in 2008
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🗓️ 2 November 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Daryl Johnson tried to warn Homeland Security about the growing momentum behind right-wing extremists. He was not well-received. On Friday’s show, how the actions of the Obama and Trump administrations fueled far-right violence. Plus, there’s election shadiness happening in Kansas. Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern explains.
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| 0:00.0 | You were an intelligence analyst with the government for how many years? |
| 0:03.0 | 25 years since 1991. |
| 0:06.3 | Do you miss it? |
| 0:09.1 | Some aspects of it I do miss. |
| 0:12.6 | This is a guy named Daryl Johnson. |
| 0:14.7 | He used to be an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 0:18.7 | He focused on domestic terrorism, extremist movements. |
| 0:22.6 | You know, it's a very tight-knit group of analysts and police officers that cover these topics. |
| 0:28.0 | And, you know, I try to keep in touch with them. And we discuss these issues. And we talk about |
| 0:33.3 | the current climate of the country and how domestic terrorism is increasing, and we're very |
| 0:38.0 | concerned. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | I mean, I just wonder if after last week you guys have just been in touch nonstop talking |
| 0:46.1 | about how to deal with this? |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, most of it is, you know, talking about how nothing's being done. |
| 0:54.8 | After last week's attempted bombings |
| 0:56.8 | and the synagogue shooting over the weekend, |
| 0:59.5 | there's been so much talk about how we got here, |
| 1:02.9 | about whether the president's fiery rhetoric |
| 1:05.0 | encouraged the men behind these attacks |
| 1:06.9 | somehow gave them confidence in their twisted beliefs. |
| 1:13.4 | But Daryl Johnson thinks about this moment differently. He says, yeah, what we saw last week is part of a wave of violent far-right |
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