“ We know better ”: Experts look with horror while the Trump administrator hides right -of -right violence recordings

Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one might think that the main violent force in American life is on the left.

Trump senior officials spent the days since Kirk murder using it as an excuse to repress political opposition. In this story, Kirk himself was a manager responsible for the public speech, a martyr was shot in the context of a long national and energetic campaign to eradicate right voices.

For experts and former government officials who have devoted their lives to studying and fighting against violent extremism, this story is exasperated.

According to research carried out by several federal and university agencies, during this century, right-wing extremism was the dominant inspiration for attacks with political motivation in the United States

“We know better,” Bill Bill Braniff, director of the prevention center for the Department of Internal Security and partnerships, to TPM in TPM in March.

The office that Braniff directed, known as CP3, focused on the fight against violent extremism. Created for the first time after September 11, the office distributed subsidies to states and local governments, and worked to coordinate various law enforcement entities and other groups to prevent mass fire, assassinations and other attacks before their product. Braniff resigned after cuts of massive personnel from the Trump administration; The office is widely considered disappeared after Trump installed a 22 -year -old former trainee as Braniff’s successor.

Since the assassination, he and other experts in extremism have worked with concern Trump officials rushing to blame Kirk’s death on progressive groups, committing to suppress speech and finance the leftist political organizations.

The Ministry of Justice has even rubbed its website a study noting that extremists of the far right have committed much more homicides than those on the left.

At the heart of the administration campaign is an assertion, stated by the head of the White House, Stephen Miller, that the Liberals represent a “vast national terrorist movement”.

“We are going to use all the resources we have,” said Miller, “throughout this government to identify, disturb, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America again safe.”

In Heidi Beirich, a researcher who spent her career studying violent extremism and the extreme right, the response of the Trump administration and the efficiency with which he imbued national comments after the assassination is deeply discouraging.

“It’s incredibly depressing. And, I think, it’s quite frightening,” she told TPM. “I just have the impression that our speech completely collapsed.”

Beirich, a co-founder of the world project against hatred and extremism, said that the administration’s response would probably only add fuel to the fire.

“They wave the bloody shirt and try to make people against the left,” she said. “And I just don’t see how it helps someone in this rather perilous moment in which we are.”

Researchers say that it is also difficult to know how many people are led to violence only for ideological reasons, as opposed to that of one factor among many. Braniff recalled the research he had conducted, which suggests that people who were likely to commit an attack for other “self-mediatized” reasons with extremist ideologies which, ultimately, provided a direction for an attack.

None of this prevented the administration from doubling. Trump signed an anti -fed labeling decree as a domestic terrorist organization on Tuesday, the first time that such an designation is applied to a domestic group (regardless of the ill -defined).

Thomas E. Brzozowski, a former MJ domestic terrorism advisor who left this year, wrote on LinkedIn that no domestic group had been qualified as a terrorist organization because there is no provision in American law to do so. “This represents the government by proclamation rather than by law.”

These types of angry partisan demonstrations of the president, combined with the release of offices like CP3, considerably weakened federal efforts to stop future acts of political violence before being able to take place.

When Trump returned to the White House, Braniff told TPM, 43 states worked with CP3 on strategies to counter violent extremism. Now this work has all been interrupted, he said.

“It was not, you know, a particularly political subject at the level of the state,” he said.