ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI for the first time acknowledged the existence of a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“I know Antifa is part of that,” Bondi said under questioning about the list from Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government. Bondi refused to offer any further details about the “domestic terrorist organization” database being compiled under President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7.
“The goal was to get her – even by denying that she would produce it – to acknowledge that it existed and then raise the alarm,” Scanlon told The Intercept.
The Justice Department had previously refused to acknowledge the list to The Intercept, despite being asked scores of questions about it over a period of months.
This kinda/sorta confirms what I’ve been suspecting. None of this debacle is recent. It’s fascist-right movement that hit critical mass, possibly during the pandemic, that has been stewing for decades if not longer.
I know that, philosophically, fascism and all its manifestations has ties into unchecked capitalism, colonialism, and slavery; stuff that goes hundreds of years back in North America. In this comment, I’m talking about the more home-grown variety that picks up before or during McCarthyism.