Neo-Nazis hold flags during a National Socialist Movement rally. Credit: Getty

America’s “doomsday” extremists are getting serious. They’re recruiting veteran and active military personnel. And they’ve begun attacking critical infrastructure.

The US intelligence community’s recently released 2023 Annual Threat Assessment is blunt in its warning: Nazis and other racist groups are now the “most lethal threat” faced by the United States.

That’s ahead of the aggressive expansionism displayed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the invasion of Ukraine under Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And these groups “believe that recruiting military members will help them organise cells for attacks against minorities or institutions that oppose their ideology”, the report warns.

United States think tanks are also increasingly worried.

A new Brookings Institution survey found 16 per cent of Americans agree with the statement: “Because things have gotten so far off-track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

But law enforcement statistics reveal an increasing number of extremists are already choosing to do so.

In 2022, there were 26 “actual physical attacks” on power facilities across the […]

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