President Trump has embraced an array of far-right views and talking points in ways that have delighted many right-wing activists who have long supported those ideas.
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“… Last week, in fact, on the eighth anniversary of the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where neo-Nazis marched by torchlight chanting about immigrants and Jews, Augustus Sol Invictus, a Florida lawyer who helped organize the event, marveled at how thoroughly the Trump administration had adopted a position that had once been on the fringes of political discourse.
… Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, offered a vocal defense of Mr. Trump. “President Trump is a voice for millions of forgotten men and women who support the widely popular policies he is enacting,” she said.
During the Biden administration, far-right organizations like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were severely hobbled, largely by the criminal prosecutions of dozens of their members who took part in the Capitol attack.
… While some far-right groups, like the fascist organization Patriot Front, have continued to stage public demonstrations, researchers at Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a nonprofit organization that tracks political violence, have found far fewer right-wing protests this year compared with recent years.
In addition to the disruptions stemming from the Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions, some experts in far-right extremism say that the relative quiet of extremists is because the Trump administration has enacted much of their agenda….”
