[PJ] As Antifa in Portland has announced more riots for tonight and tomorrow night, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just claimed at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee that the most "lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat" that the country faces today is "domestic, ideologically motivated extremism." It should be clear to everyone by now that by that, he means us: Americans who don’t support the far-left agenda of the Biden administration, the Democrats, and the establishment media.Mayorkas also brought some good news: the global jihad is so very 2002, and we’re beyond all that now. According to Forbes, he claimed that "since the September 11 attacks, the threat landscape against the U.S. has substantially ’evolved’ to the point that foreign terrorism is no longer the chief concern of DHS." That’s wonderful, but he should hope that the Islamic jihadis don’t hear about this and decide that he has handed them a golden opportunity to operate inside the United States while DHS is otherwise occupied.
Certainly Mayorkas had other things on his mind, as he claimed that the riot at the Capitol on January 6 was a "searing example" of the threat the nation faces today. In line with this, Forbes reported, "DHS announced in February that it would provide $77 million to state and local governments to combat domestic violent extremism. At the time Mayorkas wrote in a statement that ’the most significant terrorist threat facing the nation comes from lone offenders and small groups’ whose violent acts are motivated by ’extremist ideological beliefs.’"
That’s where the insidious nature of what Mayorkas is saying is clearest. Conspicuously lacking once again is any definition of what exactly constitutes "domestic, ideologically motivated extremism" or "extremist ideological beliefs." Is it support for violence and actual insurrection (as opposed to a leaderless, weaponless but politically useful riot such as took place on January 6)? Or is it simply holding views that dissent from the hard-left agenda?