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The Call to Radicalism, Both at Home and Abroad

The Call to Radicalism, Both at Home and Abroad

After violence broke out between white nationalist protestors and counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia over the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, a 20-year old man from Ohio drove his vehicle into a crowd, killing one counter-protestor and injuring several others. The echoes of a terrorist tactic the world has seen in France and Germany leaves the United States asking questions about the threat of white nationalism and domestic terror on its own soil.

Back in April, The Cipher Brief examined the similarities between right wing and jihadist inspired terrorism and how both forms of violence continue to threaten U.S. national security.

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