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Jacob Ware, co-author with Bruce Hoffman of the new (2024) book God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (Columbia University Press), discusses the problem of far-right extremism in the US with Doug Samuelson and Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
Ware co-authored an op end that appeared September 17 in the Los Angeles Times claiming that, “Trump assassination attempts are just the beginning. Imagine what is coming after the election“. They wrote, “If Trump is elected, many expect a visceral reaction from segments of the far left, including some who may resort to violence. Trump’s election could also embolden any followers prone to violence … against immigrants, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ people and others. If he continues to praise the Jan. 6 terrorists and even pardons those who were convicted, Trump would be inviting continued vigilantism.”1 As President, Trump pardoned Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven, two of the leaders of the 2016 Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, of arson on federal land for fires they had set in 2001 and 2006. Another of the leaders of that occupation, Robert LaVoy Finicum, had been shot and killed by law enforcement after he reached for a handgun concealed in his pocket while vigorously trying to evade arrest. Many people living near there felt threatened by large numbers of outsiders, often dressed in military-style attire carrying firearms aggressively approaching them in local stores and asking their opinions about the Hammonds. Locals responded by calling public meetings and encouraging law enforcement to take appropriate action against the occupiers.
Ware is a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Jacob Ware and Colin P. Clark (2024-09-17) “Opinion: Trump assassination attempts are just the beginning. Imagine what is coming after the election.“, Los Angeles Times.
