After last week’s storming of the US Capitol by a right-wing mob resembling an adult Halloween party gone awry (bring your own fur and anti-Semitism), talk is again resurfacing about expanding the War on Terror. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that President-elect Joe Biden will “make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism,” noting that “he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.”
Emphasizing domestic terrorism isn’t new for Biden, who has said he decided to run for president this time around after a neo-Nazi killed counterprotester Heather Heyer during the infamous 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. With deadly right-wing violence looming ever larger, and with a Democratic Congress and Executive Branch about to be seated, new domestic terrorism statutes are quite likely just around the corner.
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