reuters | The primary “terrorist threat” facing the United States, according to an Oct. 6 Department of Homeland Security report, are lone offenders and small domestic extremist cells who may act out grievances.
An October poll by political scientists including Lee Drutman of the New America think tank published in Politico found around a third of Americans justified violence to advance political goals, double the number in December 2019.
“The most likely outcome is the election happens, there’s no major violence, but the risk of serious or even low-level violence is probably higher than it’s been in a very long time,” said Drutman.
“That’s what is galvanizing and driving militia groups and other armed
individuals to think that they have a role to play in this moment of
sweeping social change,” said Joan Donovan, a misinformation expert at
Harvard.
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