A new move by President Donald Trump’s administration would remove white nationalists and other hate groups from extremism databases, an act being praised by groups of neo-Nazis.
According to a Reuters report published last week, “The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism.” Currently the program is called “Countering Violent Extremism,” or CVE, and focuses on all forms of extremism. But under new proposed rules, “[it] would no longer target groups such as white supremacists,” Reuters stated, and would be called “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism.”
Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, rejoiced in a blog post on Thursday that “it just couldn’t ever get any better than this.”
