https://archive.vn/1R91I Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem Jan 12, 2021

"Trump is the spiritual leader for domestic terrorists and he is their operational leader. He tells them what to do. Now, total isolation. 25th A. Yes. Impeachment. Yes. Deplatforming. Yes. We are still in the tactical phase of a counterterrorism effort. Enough with unity." @cnn

Harvard Prof, CEO, CNN Analyst, Advisor, Former Department of Homeland Security and mother of 3. Author of "Security Mom." Instagram. com/juliettekayyem  Cambridge, MA

From video: "He will have his radical elememts, we will arrest them, we will isolate them."

https://archive.vn/qFSNL theatlantic 12 Jan 2021 15:03:47 UTC

How MAGA Extremism Ends

If Trump keeps losing, the risk of future violence will abate.

6:00 AM ET Juliette Kayyem

Former Department of Homeland Security official and author of Security Mom

For the past four years, Donald Trump has been playing two roles: one as president, and the other as the rallying point for a coalition of theocrats, internet fantasists, white supremacists, and various other authoritarians who are in no way committed to peaceful transitions of power. Wednesday’s insurrection at the United States Capitol made Trump’s latter role all too clear.

Before he incited the deadly attack, Trump still might have had a future in politics. Even after losing his reelection bid, Trump had been well positioned to launch his own media brand, maintain his spell over other Republicans, and make life hard for his Democratic successor, Joe Biden. But Trump’s role in the violent insurrection—which was intended to overturn the 2020 election and literally drove members of Congress into hiding—could and should turn him into an outcast. He’s been banned from Twitter. Many Republicans are distancing themselves. Some of his Fox News proxies are expressing shock at his actions. Trump even lost Bill O’Reilly and the PGA of America.

The decision of what to call the insurrectionists at the Capitol is politically fraught, but it surely fits my definition of domestic terrorism. People do not bring zip-tie handcuffs to the Capitol because they only want to exercise their First Amendment rights. No one who carries the parts for a makeshift gallows can be counted on to stick to peaceful protest. The insurrectionists had the same intention as other terrorist groups throughout history: to exert influence over the government by violently intimidating public officials and average citizens.

Viewing Trump’s insurrection through a counterterrorism lens unlocks some insights about how to deradicalize his most violent supporters. Successful efforts to fight terrorism begin at the top. An ideology may survive and linger, but to curtail a terror threat requires what counterterrorism experts call “leadership decapitation.” (The meaning is figurative.) Society is more likely to heal when an extremist group’s ideological leader is isolated and damaged in the eyes of his supporters.

Keeping Trump in office until January 20 won’t assuage the supporters who falsely believe that the election was stolen from him, but removing him from office a week early would emphasize that he is losing. Recruitment is easier for a winning team. As the Islamic State and al-Qaeda both discovered after their apexes, getting people to take up arms is harder when the cause is in decline.

He has limited access to effective communication forums, most notably Twitter and Facebook. The platforms’ decision to suspend his accounts was controversial, but deplatforming is a successful counterterrorism technique that, although it may galvanize diehards, impedes a movement leader’s ability to reach new members. The MAGA-world leadership team is in disarray; Pence plans to attend Biden’s inauguration. In welcoming Pence to the event—“I’d be honored to have him there,” the president-elect said—Biden is replicating a common divide-and-conquer counterterrorism strategy that amplifies distrust and leads to paranoia among those who remain inside an extremist group. Companies such as American Express are pulling support for members of Congress who went along with Trump’s effort to block the certification of the electoral vote.

The way to unite this country is to isolate acts of violence—and a leader who incites it—from legitimate expression. Trump was a north star for a certain kind of radical. Americans will be safer the more that star loses its shine.

Obviously, this fucking idiot, illiterate bitch and counter-terrorism failure did not consider how even the perception of overly-harsh retaliation and injustice could backfire:

After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler, on the trial, omitted his usual pre-putsch anti-Semitism and centered his defense on his selfless devotion to the good of the Volk and the need for bold action to save them.[30] The Versailles settlement had betrayed Germany, which they had tried to save.[31] Thereafter, his speeches concentrated on his boundless devotion to the Volk, though not entirely eliminating the anti-Semitism.[32] Even once in power, his immediate speeches spoke of serving Germany.[33] While the Reichstag fire was used to justify anti-Communist and anti-Semitic violence, Hitler himself spoke on a new life, honor, and unity in Germany.[34] Similarly, the Night of the Long Knives was justified as a peril to the people so great that only decisive action would save them.[35] Goebbels described Hitler after that event as suffering "tragic loneliness" and as a Siegfried forced to shed blood to preserve Germany.[36]

But I suppose leftists don't care if 6 million were added to the 100 million corpses generated by leftism.

Note:

On Biden's win on Nov 2020, and in the DC "peaceful protest" on Aug 28 2020, these are NOT domestic terrorists:

https://archive.vn/TUYQD Ford Fischer@FordFischer 7 Nov 2020

VIDEO THREAD: Today Biden supporters are gathered in front of the White House by the thousands, soaking themselves in champagne and cheering as the networks declare Joe Biden the President-Elect. All footage available for license.

One Biden supporter is carrying around an effigy of President Trump's decapitated head on a pike wearing a pacifier and a pig-nose.

https://archive.vn/iQgp1 Daniel Pipes دانيال بايبس‏Verified account @DanielPipes 7 Nov 2020

About a 1K people milled about #PhiladelphiaCityHall this afternoon, centered around a cone-shaped pillow-like item bearing Trump's face. People ritualistically kicked, slammed, and punched it to much applause. It's disturbing because symbolic violence leads to actual violence.

https://archive.vn/qHMea projectveritas OCTOBER 13, 2020

Colorado Dem Operative Kris Jacks: ‘2020 is a Political Revolution’ … ‘Want To Change This Country With Violence’ ... ‘There’s Only One Way To Do It’ … ‘Guillotines, Mother fker’ … ‘Killing Random Nazis In The Street’**

https://archive.vn/KUTSQ Jordan Lancaster @jordylancaster Aug 28, 2020

An elderly man was just punched in the head at Lafayette square. Not sure what started this. (Twitter cut off the first part of the video in my last tweet)

another camera crew was just chased out

they’re executing what looks like a donald trump doll in a makeshift guillotine

Rand Paul was mere feet away from "peaceful protestors", while the Jan 2020 Capitol politicians were YARDS away from "insurrectionist domestic terrorists":

https://archive.vn/zIXD9 Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene Aug 28, 2020

Rand Paul just got chased by a crowd back to his hotel, after leaving the White House from Trump’s Republican Party Nomination #DC #DCProtests