Menacing America, From Within

 RIGHT WING EXTREMISM is the greatest domestic threat to American national security, it has become obvious. It poses a far greater threat than any foreign adversary, a greater threat to the American future than anything except climate change itself, which threatens the entire world and human civilization. Pour current deadliest threat, Covid 19, we now know for certain will be vanquished. Its merely a matter of time. The recent invasion and ransacking of the Capitol building, a direct result of right wing extremism, clearly reveals its deadly potential for destruction and violence, not merely in terms of recent manifested reality of events during the Trump administration, but more importantly in terms of the future potential of the far right to disrupt and damage American society in the post Trump future, as it appears that the right wing's reaction to Trump's election loss is and will remain one of extreme anger. If there is any silver lining to the insurrection and the overall situation, it is that the fundamental criminality and immorality of Trump and the entire Trump movement has been laid bare in the starkest possible terms for all to plainly see, and thus perhaps to do something about. For most of Trump's disheartened supporters, a great number of whom are part of the far right,Trump is "still" their president. Their rejection of Biden's election is an indicator of the lengths to which they are willing to go to construct their own version of reality as justification for their extremist views and behavior. They believe that Trump and the Republican represent their beliefs as well as their morality. Assuming this is true,, they arguable belong in prison every bit as much as Trump. The far right is dishonest about its reasons for supporting Trump, and has been since the beginning of his political career five years ago. Trump, a former pro choice Democrat, is about as "pro life" is it takes to make a buck, win an election, get on television, or gain the support of an adoring army of sycophants. His real drawing power, what he really offers, has nothing to do with defense of liberty, protection of unborn babies or the American way. What endears the right wing to Trump is deeper and darker; white supremacy, racism, and xenophobia.These are values few dare openly promote; all but teh most extreme of the extremists prefer to couch them in more palatable terms, such as "traditional American values and society". Nevertheless they lurk, just beneath the surface of ordinary conservatives.