one of the things about the Bowling Alone problem and the atomization of American culture is that it has essentially destroyed right-wing paramilitaries alongside everything else
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The proud boys, 3 percenters etc seem to still have a pretty robust network. They also have the contact details of hundreds of thousands of Americans who had joined one of those militia groups at some point in the last 20 years
I hear you on them not being as numerous as people think too, but it sure seems like easy social media and chats has been radicalizing too. I look at something like the Terrorgram collective (telegram chat + gamification of murder + implementing Siege style killings), and that's internet only.
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And any who became disaffected in 2021 might now be happy to get involved
also that’s 1,500 people.
This also has implications if one wants a recruiting and training ground for pre-radicalized leftists.
Just leaving that last part there in case it's helpful to anyone.