This is sadly not a new thing. If we define terrorism as "threatened or actual violence by a non-state actor to achieve political ends", there is no close second to the KKK & their descendants when it comes to domestic terrorism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/domestic-terrorism-data/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...
That definition by the way comes from University of Maryland who maintains a database of all domestic terror events that proves out that point. https://start.umd.edu/gtd/ ">https://start.umd.edu/gtd/"...
One of the challenges crafting anti-domestic terrorism statutes is that to do so requires that we address our original sin and confront the too-close ties between government officials and racist vigilantes from reconstruction to today.