Trump and his militant base

[billh58]

Kurt Eichenwald wrote a very interesting — and provocative — article in Newsweek back in February. The title is: “Right-Wing Extremists are a bigger threat to America than ISIS”

Boom. That must have pissed off quite a few people. Eichenwald probably didn’t realize at the time he was describing a large segment of Donald Trump’s base. Six months later it is obvious. But when we hear or read about anti-terrorism efforts, the focus never includes these militant groups.

All we’ve been hearing about is how ISIS is such a threat, what are we doing to fight ISIS abroad and here at home, blah-blah-blah. ISIS is a threat of course and the government is doing a lot to fight the group, but ever since the Department of Homeland Security released a report critical of so-called militias in 2009 — and then quickly backtracked because Republicans objected to a key core of their base being vilified and compared to Muslim extremists — it’s been no secret right wing militias, our homegrown terrorist organizations, are a growing and dangerous threat to America. Well, except at the Department of Homeland Security.

After the GOP objected to the accurate portrayal of these right wing nut bars running around the woods and hinterlands with assault weapons and survivalist store camouflaged fatigues, the DHS closed down the office that investigated such organizations. So, on an executive branch level, there was no office investigating right wing extremists who claim the laws of the land don’t apply to them, don’t register motor vehicles and issue their own passports because they don’t recognize the federal — and often state and local — governments as representing them. Crazy people with guns, in other words.

http://lapostexaminer.com/trump-militant-base/2016/08/18

These are the extreme right-wing nuts that NRA apologists and Second Amendment absolutists (of all stripes) would have Americans support because Liberty, Freedom, and Constitution. These are the armed Teabagger Trump cultists who are the face of the "gun rights" minority of delusional and paranoid gun humpers in this country.

The "gun rights" fanatics who have been conned into supporting the death merchant gun manufacturers and their right-wing political gun lobby, celebrate each time a backwoods red-necked legislature passes another ALEC inspired "gun rights" law.

Support and vote for a real Democrat who will stand up to the gun nuts and introduce and pass sensible gun control and help to stop the madness that people like Trump and his henchmen are inflicting on our country.

[guillaumeb]

1. And the Obama Presidency has accelerated the growth of these fringe gun owners.

The racist, paranoid fringe that, after nearly 8 years of the Obama Presidency, still feels that Obama is coming for their guns.

They will say the same thing when Clinton is elected, and they will be fueled by Trump's statement that he will only lose if there is massive electoral fraud.