'Green light to rebuild': Emboldened Neo-Nazis reportedly regroup after Trump's election
Travis Gettys
February 24, 2025
America's 'violent father': Analyst warns of GOP's dark new directionTravis Gettys
February 24, 2025
RAW STORY
Skinhead. (Photo credit: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock)
An international neo-Nazi organization is regrouping in the U.S. after President Donald Trump installed a loyalist to oversee federal law enforcement and look away from policing right-wing extremist groups.
The Base has been the focus of an FBI counterterrorism investigation since its founding in 2018, and more than a dozen members have been arrested before the group seemed to disappear by 2022. However, its founder and leader Rinaldo Nazzaro has recruited and reorganized from his home in Russia since before the November election, reported The Guardian.
The publication was tipped to an audio message released earlier this month from the presumed new leader, who called for covert action and low-key preparations by armed cells throughout the U.S. rather than making splashes like protesting against drag-queen story hours.
“Are we just going to be reactionary or are we going to be part of the solution, The military solution,” said the presumed leader, whose identity hasn't been confirmed but speaks in an American accent. “Because inevitably we’re going to end up in some sort of military situation, what are the choices?”
Nazzaro, a former U.S. special forces contractor, offered $1,200 a month to former military service members to go through paramilitary training in the Pacific northwest, and the new leader envisioned the Base playing a role in what he describes as a "black scenario" where the U.S. government collapses and members would “provide for your family” and for “white women."
“There is no political solution, only a military solution,” that person said with their voice heavily modulated to protect their identity. "So act accordingly.”
Social media accounts associated with the Base show photos of members brandishing military-style rifles and claiming to be across the U.S. and Europe, and the organization released a photo on Inauguration Day showing the largest number of American members in one photo in over a year and also solicited donations to a Bitcoin wallet to distribute weapons and ammunition.
“The Base has released a slow but steady trickle of propaganda over the past several months that has mostly highlighted their presence in Europe, so this shift in focus towards the US should raise alarms,” said Steven Rai, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
“The timing of this shift is particularly noteworthy – while neo-Nazi accelerationist groups like the Base have been on their back foot due to intense law enforcement pressure, which disrupted their most integral organizers and propaganda artists, they may sense an opening with the recent change of administration in the U.S.," Rai added.
Trump and his FBI pick Kash Patel have promised major reforms of the FBI, including a shift away from domestic terrorism investigations.
Experts believe right-wing extremists sense an opening.
“I think groups like the Base, far-right extremist groups that are strategic, have been waiting for the right opportunity before reinvigorating their respective organizations,” Colin Clarke, a terrorism expert and director of research at the Soufan Center. “This means that far-right extremist groups likely perceive the re-election of Trump as a green light to rebuild without fear of arrest or prosecution.”
Skinhead. (Photo credit: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock)
An international neo-Nazi organization is regrouping in the U.S. after President Donald Trump installed a loyalist to oversee federal law enforcement and look away from policing right-wing extremist groups.
The Base has been the focus of an FBI counterterrorism investigation since its founding in 2018, and more than a dozen members have been arrested before the group seemed to disappear by 2022. However, its founder and leader Rinaldo Nazzaro has recruited and reorganized from his home in Russia since before the November election, reported The Guardian.
The publication was tipped to an audio message released earlier this month from the presumed new leader, who called for covert action and low-key preparations by armed cells throughout the U.S. rather than making splashes like protesting against drag-queen story hours.
“Are we just going to be reactionary or are we going to be part of the solution, The military solution,” said the presumed leader, whose identity hasn't been confirmed but speaks in an American accent. “Because inevitably we’re going to end up in some sort of military situation, what are the choices?”
Nazzaro, a former U.S. special forces contractor, offered $1,200 a month to former military service members to go through paramilitary training in the Pacific northwest, and the new leader envisioned the Base playing a role in what he describes as a "black scenario" where the U.S. government collapses and members would “provide for your family” and for “white women."
“There is no political solution, only a military solution,” that person said with their voice heavily modulated to protect their identity. "So act accordingly.”
Social media accounts associated with the Base show photos of members brandishing military-style rifles and claiming to be across the U.S. and Europe, and the organization released a photo on Inauguration Day showing the largest number of American members in one photo in over a year and also solicited donations to a Bitcoin wallet to distribute weapons and ammunition.
“The Base has released a slow but steady trickle of propaganda over the past several months that has mostly highlighted their presence in Europe, so this shift in focus towards the US should raise alarms,” said Steven Rai, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
“The timing of this shift is particularly noteworthy – while neo-Nazi accelerationist groups like the Base have been on their back foot due to intense law enforcement pressure, which disrupted their most integral organizers and propaganda artists, they may sense an opening with the recent change of administration in the U.S.," Rai added.
Trump and his FBI pick Kash Patel have promised major reforms of the FBI, including a shift away from domestic terrorism investigations.
Experts believe right-wing extremists sense an opening.
“I think groups like the Base, far-right extremist groups that are strategic, have been waiting for the right opportunity before reinvigorating their respective organizations,” Colin Clarke, a terrorism expert and director of research at the Soufan Center. “This means that far-right extremist groups likely perceive the re-election of Trump as a green light to rebuild without fear of arrest or prosecution.”
Matthew Chapman
February 24, 2025
RAW STORY
President Donald Trump's base has taken to using the language of parent and child, even calling him "Daddy" at some key events. This concept in American politics is nothing new, Susan Milligan wrote for The New Republic — but in recent years, it has taken on a far darker significance than in years past.
"More than 30 years ago, the journalist Chris Matthews argued in The New Republic that there was 'an accepted division of chores in American politics today,' in which Republicans 'protect us with a strong national defense' and 'worry about our business affairs' while Democrats 'look after our health, nutrition, and welfare.' 'The paradigm for this snug arrangement,' he added, is 'the traditional American family. ‘Daddy’ locks the doors at night and brings home the bacon. ‘Mommy’ worries when the kids are sick and makes sure each one gets treated fairly.'"
To some extent, this remains true — Democrats are the party voters trust on health care, education, and social services, while Republicans are the party voters trust on business and security issues. The problem is, Republicans are now more like America's "violent father," wrote Milligan.
Since taking office, she continued, Trump has shown "abject cruelty" with his power.
"He immediately froze foreign aid and moved to eviscerate the U.S. Agency for International Development, which helps alleviate hunger, improve health care, and provides disaster relief in the poorest parts of the world; food was left to rot in ports and warehouses around the globe. He slashed grants for medical research (a federal court has put a stop to it for now), imperiling work on cancer and infectious diseases. He engineered a mass firing of as many as 220,000 federal employees that is ongoing as you read this, with tens of thousands having received impersonal termination notices."
"Forget stern-but-loving Daddy," she wrote. "Trump’s GOP is downright belligerent: the Daddy who berates umpires at Little League games and makes his own kid cry for dropping a fly ball, who other parents won’t carpool with because he flips the bird while cutting off motorists. 'What we have now is a violent father, and a father to be feared. The one to whom other parents always go, ‘Who the hell is that guy?’' said scholar Matthew MacWilliams, author of the book "On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History."
And Democrats themselves have bought too much into the two-parent analogy of government, Milligan wrote, by assuming that because they lost this election, it means America voted for and approves of not just a Daddy, but an abusive Daddy. Instead, they should go all in on the fight to save the soul of the country.
"Ironically, it’s this very timidity and overcaution, especially among Democratic leaders on the Hill, that’s starting to fuel a debate that could indeed tear at the party’s soul, imperiling its chances of clawing back power in future elections," she warned
February 24, 2025
RAW STORY
President Donald Trump's base has taken to using the language of parent and child, even calling him "Daddy" at some key events. This concept in American politics is nothing new, Susan Milligan wrote for The New Republic — but in recent years, it has taken on a far darker significance than in years past.
"More than 30 years ago, the journalist Chris Matthews argued in The New Republic that there was 'an accepted division of chores in American politics today,' in which Republicans 'protect us with a strong national defense' and 'worry about our business affairs' while Democrats 'look after our health, nutrition, and welfare.' 'The paradigm for this snug arrangement,' he added, is 'the traditional American family. ‘Daddy’ locks the doors at night and brings home the bacon. ‘Mommy’ worries when the kids are sick and makes sure each one gets treated fairly.'"
To some extent, this remains true — Democrats are the party voters trust on health care, education, and social services, while Republicans are the party voters trust on business and security issues. The problem is, Republicans are now more like America's "violent father," wrote Milligan.
Since taking office, she continued, Trump has shown "abject cruelty" with his power.
"He immediately froze foreign aid and moved to eviscerate the U.S. Agency for International Development, which helps alleviate hunger, improve health care, and provides disaster relief in the poorest parts of the world; food was left to rot in ports and warehouses around the globe. He slashed grants for medical research (a federal court has put a stop to it for now), imperiling work on cancer and infectious diseases. He engineered a mass firing of as many as 220,000 federal employees that is ongoing as you read this, with tens of thousands having received impersonal termination notices."
"Forget stern-but-loving Daddy," she wrote. "Trump’s GOP is downright belligerent: the Daddy who berates umpires at Little League games and makes his own kid cry for dropping a fly ball, who other parents won’t carpool with because he flips the bird while cutting off motorists. 'What we have now is a violent father, and a father to be feared. The one to whom other parents always go, ‘Who the hell is that guy?’' said scholar Matthew MacWilliams, author of the book "On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History."
And Democrats themselves have bought too much into the two-parent analogy of government, Milligan wrote, by assuming that because they lost this election, it means America voted for and approves of not just a Daddy, but an abusive Daddy. Instead, they should go all in on the fight to save the soul of the country.
"Ironically, it’s this very timidity and overcaution, especially among Democratic leaders on the Hill, that’s starting to fuel a debate that could indeed tear at the party’s soul, imperiling its chances of clawing back power in future elections," she warned
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