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SPECIAL: Domestic Extremist Threats Face Trump Admin

Homeland Security Today: The incoming Donald Trump administration faces an array of extremist and terrorist threats aligned with varied ideological doctrines, and confounding domestic, homegrown, and foreign manifestations. The new administration will attempt to manage such challenges, but cannot eliminate them. After all, these forms of political violence have existed since time immemorial and will continue for generations.

The term domestic extremism means individuals or groups that follow a variant of ideologies that support the threat and/or use of violence for political, religious, or social objectives. One type of domestic extremism includes those who disdain others due to a person’s immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and disability. Such bias, as exhibited in criminal acts, has been termed hate crimes. Lone wolves and cabals inspired by hate-based ideology, as well as those formally linked to a hate group, perpetrate such crimes.

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